"Parents located in north London wants to find an exceptional and qualified educator to support their most junior child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally miss the phrase "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
But, it could be the crucial element of this unique position posting, as it seeks to hire a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have since been received since the anonymous family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has received notice in the media, with many questioning why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that despite first scepticism, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the atypical nature of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already become established".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the elder child had picked up "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," stated the expert.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they wish to impart.
The consultant explained the tutor must be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
However, in spite of all this tutelage in "Britishness", could the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Yes", said he. "The parents realize this may not work, but they've just taken the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
There are some in the education sector who express those doubts.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, stated that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
He wrote that he had emigrated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of childhood, and had been brought up understanding and living both cultures. He progressed to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can act as a living vessel of UK identity, someone who can in some way impart the characteristics of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, seems to me naive and unfeasible," he stated.
"Based on my background, employing a typically English tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily produce the result they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and however I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something Adam believes can be educated – and marketed.
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