"A family located in North London seeks an remarkable and skilled educator to support their youngest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily miss the phrase "first-steps" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it could be the most significant aspect of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have since been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received attention throughout the press, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of first scepticism, he considered the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unusual character of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already set in".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he answered. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family told him they hoped to prevent the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
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
"A lot of the learning at the beginning here is rather osmotic," said Adam.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will pick up the English characteristics they want to impart.
Adam said the tutor needed to be somebody who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and music so as to influence the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the multicultural family he resides with in any case?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "The family know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the perspective 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.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the education sector who share similar reservations.
Peter Cui, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the UK at the time of seven, and had been educated experiencing and embodying both cultures. He went on to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that one individual can function as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can somehow transfer the qualities of a British gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, strikes me as optimistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly English tutor from early childhood will does not instantly create the goal they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity cannot be imposed from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, English culture is something the expert hopes can be instructed – and marketed.
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