"Parents based in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled tutor to support their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally overlook the term "beginning" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it could be the most significant part of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of submissions have already been sent in since the anonymous family posted their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has attracted notice across the news, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their hunt, said that in spite of early doubt, he considered the concept "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he said they recognized the atypical character of their request, and how early in age their son is.
But, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed him they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their infant.
The plan: To bring in a British tutor, who must speak with RP, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the development at the beginning here is rather osmotic," stated Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to impart.
He noted the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family told him the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in equestrian activities, winter sports, the arts and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of passions.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and open doors.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
But, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", would the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he resides with anyway?
"Absolutely", answered he. "The parents realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the education sector who express these reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who provides private tutors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been brought up understanding and practicing both cultures. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that a single person can function as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can possibly transfer the characteristics of a UK sophisticate onto a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a quintessentially British tutor from early childhood will not necessarily achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to live several of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the expert thinks can be taught – and marketed.
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