"A household based in North London seeks an extraordinary and skilled tutor to support their smallest child on his early path to becoming an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily overlook the term "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
However, it might be the most important element of this distinctive employment listing, as it aims to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of submissions have since 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 post has received interest throughout the press, with numerous wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, explained that despite early skepticism, he considered the idea "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he said they appreciated the unusual aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then become established".
What exactly did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam replied. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the education at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they want to instil.
He noted the tutor must be someone who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed him the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or passion in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and music so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son become a "English gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and provide access.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "Britishness", could the child adopt what is termed cultural influence from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", said Adam. "The family know this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and let's go as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who share those concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who provides personal educators, stated that "the process of embracing two identities, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from China to the UK at the period of seven, and had been raised knowing and living two backgrounds. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can serve as a living vessel of English culture, someone who can somehow impart the attributes of a English gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, strikes me as optimistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"From my perspective, engaging a typically British tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily produce the result they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience many of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, personal identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
