"A family located in North London wants to find an remarkable and qualified educator to assist their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might readily skip the term "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it may be the most important element of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of responses have now been received since the anonymous family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the advert has gained attention in the news, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that despite first skepticism, he found the plan "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they appreciated the unusual character of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to Adam they did not want history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," said the expert.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to impart.
Adam said the tutor had to be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to influence the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Additionally though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and provide access.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he notes.
But, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child adopt alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Absolutely", answered Adam. "The parents realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the private teaching field who have these reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who provides personal educators, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the time of seven, and had been brought up understanding and embodying both cultures. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can act as a living vessel of English culture, an individual who can possibly impart the attributes of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, appears naive and unfeasible," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a typically British tutor from infancy will not necessarily create the goal they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He added: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be imposed from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, UK identity is something Adam thinks can be educated – and marketed.
"I believe the reality that the international society views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
