"Parents located in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and qualified instructor to support their most junior child on his early path to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might easily miss the term "first-steps" as mere figurative language.
But, it might be the crucial element of this unique position posting, as it attempts to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have now been received since the unnamed family advertised their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received notice in the press, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that in spite of first doubt, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical nature of their request, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family explained to him they wished to avoid this pattern to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to impart.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and provide access.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
However, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child adopt alleged cultural bias from the international family he lives with regardless?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "The family realize this may not work, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who share these reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the UK at the age of seven, and had been educated knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He went on to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that an individual can function as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can somehow impart the attributes of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and unfeasible," he commented.
"From my perspective, employing a quintessentially English tutor from early childhood will not instantly produce the goal they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He added: "The reality is, self-identity cannot be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and sold.
"I think the reality that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
