"A family based in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their smallest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally skip the wording "beginning" as mere figurative language.
But, it may be the most important part of this unique employment listing, as it aims to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have now been received since the unidentified family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained notice in the press, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, stated that despite first skepticism, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the atypical character of their request, and how early in age their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then become established".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family told him they wished to avoid this pattern to recur with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the outset here is kind of osmotic," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
Additionally though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will lead to accomplishment and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he comments.
However, notwithstanding all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with regardless?
"Certainly", said he. "The parents understand this could fail, 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 not a concern," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who have these concerns.
Peter Cui, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had relocated from China to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been brought up knowing and practicing both cultures. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that a single person can serve as a embodiment of UK identity, an individual who can somehow transplant the attributes of a English gentleman onto a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"From my perspective, employing a distinctly UK tutor from early childhood will will not instantly produce the goal they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to live many of the experiences they desire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be taught – and sold.
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