"Parents based in North London seeks an exceptional and qualified educator to support their smallest child on his early path to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally skip the phrase "beginning" as mere an expression.
However, it could be the crucial element of this unusual employment listing, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a infant.
Numerous of submissions have already been sent in since the anonymous family posted their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has attracted attention in the media, with numerous wondering why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding first doubt, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he noted they understood the atypical character of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He said the elder child had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told him they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the learning at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," said Adam.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will acquire the English characteristics they want to impart.
The consultant said the tutor had 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 tutor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have understanding of or passion in riding, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a range of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and open doors.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
But, despite all this tutelage in "Britishness", could the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Absolutely", replied he. "The family know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share similar reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who provides personal educators, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
Peter noted that he had moved from China to the UK at the age of seven, and had been raised knowing and living dual heritages. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can act as a living vessel of English culture, a person who can possibly impart the attributes of a British gentleman onto a infant child, strikes me as naive and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, employing a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will not automatically achieve the goal they want.
"I did not have such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience many of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The reality is, self-identity should not be imposed from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, English culture is something Adam hopes can be educated – and marketed.
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