"A family located in North London seeks an extraordinary and qualified instructor to support their smallest child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally overlook the term "beginning" as simple an expression.
But, it could be the most significant part of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the unnamed family published their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the post has gained notice across the media, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, chief executive of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that despite early skepticism, he found the concept "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already set in".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to him they did not want this pattern to recur with their infant.
The strategy: To bring in a British tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," said Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they want to instil.
He noted the tutor needed to be someone who studied at "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have understanding of or passion in riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he explained the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son become a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and provide access.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "UK identity", would the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", said the CEO. "The family know this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who share these concerns.
Peter Cui, chief executive of Blue Education, who provides private tutors, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had moved from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the time of seven, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying both cultures. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The concept that an individual can act as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can somehow transfer the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially UK tutor from infancy will will not instantly produce the result they want.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they desire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the expert hopes can be educated – and marketed.
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