"A family residing in the northern part of London is looking for an exceptional and experienced instructor to assist their most junior child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
When reading this advertisement, you might naturally miss the term "beginning" as mere a turn of phrase.
But, it could be the most significant aspect of this unique position posting, as it seeks to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have already been submitted since the unidentified family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the advert has gained interest throughout the press, with several asking why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that despite early doubt, he found the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they recognized the unusual character of their request, and how immature their son is.
But, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam responded. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the elder child had picked up "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to him they did not want the same situation to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To hire a British tutor, who should speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the education at the start here is somewhat absorbed naturally," stated Adam.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the UK customs they want to impart.
Adam explained the tutor must be someone who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Furthermore though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he adds.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "Britishness", would the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied he. "The parents understand this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who express these doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the time of childhood, and had been raised experiencing and living both cultures. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that an individual can serve as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can somehow transfer the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will not necessarily produce the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, self-identity should not be imposed from the outside; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, Britishness is something Adam believes can be taught – and marketed.
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