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"A household located in North London seeks an extraordinary and qualified educator to support their youngest child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."

When reading this post, you might easily miss the wording "initial stages" as mere an expression.

However, it could be the crucial element of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to find a mentor for a infant.

Many of responses have now been sent in since the unidentified 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 post has attracted notice throughout the media, with several questioning why?

Forward-Thinking Method

The CEO, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that despite first scepticism, he viewed the idea "forward-looking", and "advanced".

When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the atypical character of their demand, and how young their son is.

But, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".

What exactly does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?

It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".

He stated the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to him they hoped to prevent history to recur with their infant.

The intention: To engage a British tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby right from the beginning.

Subtle Influence

"Much of the education at the outset here is kind of acquired indirectly," explained the expert.

It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they want to instil.

The consultant noted the tutor had to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".

"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.

Money No Object

The family informed the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and music so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of interests.

More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".

In the family's view, helping their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in success and create opportunities.

"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.

However, notwithstanding all this instruction in "English culture", could the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?

"Yes", said he. "They realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.

Impractical

There are some in the private teaching field who express similar reservations.

Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."

Peter noted that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and practicing both cultures. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.

"The concept that an individual can act as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can somehow transplant the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he commented.

"From my perspective, employing a distinctly British tutor from infancy will will not necessarily create the outcome they want.

"I never had such a figure, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the opportunities they desire for their son."

He stated: "The fact is, self-identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."

Purchasing UK Culture

Naturally, Britishness is something the expert thinks can be instructed – and marketed.

"In my view the fact that the global community holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating