"A family based in North London wants to find an exceptional and experienced tutor to support their smallest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might easily overlook the phrase "beginning" as just an expression.
But, it may be the most important element of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to hire a tutor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have now been received since the unnamed family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted attention in the news, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that despite initial scepticism, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
However, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
What exactly does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To hire a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the learning at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," said the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will acquire the British traits they wish to impart.
He noted the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or interest in riding, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and provide access.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
However, despite all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child absorb what is termed cultural leaning from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", answered the CEO. "The family know this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who express similar reservations.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides individual instructors, commented that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
He noted that he had relocated from Asia to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been raised experiencing and living two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The notion that one individual can function as a embodiment of Britishness, an individual who can possibly impart the attributes of a British gentleman upon a infant child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a typically English tutor from babyhood will not automatically produce the result they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be educated – and marketed.
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