"A family located in North London seeks an extraordinary and experienced instructor to assist their youngest child on his early path to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily overlook the term "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
Yet, it may be the most significant part of this unique job advert, as it seeks to hire a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of applications have now been sent in since the anonymous family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has gained interest throughout the news, with numerous wondering why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that notwithstanding initial doubt, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
But, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", he replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to him they did not want history to repeat itself with their infant.
The strategy: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the outset here is rather absorbed naturally," stated the expert.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they want to cultivate.
He noted the tutor had to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family told him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, skiing, the arts and music so as to inspire the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he notes.
But, despite all this instruction in "English culture", could the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the international family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", answered Adam. "They realize this could fail, 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 expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the education sector who have similar reservations.
An education leader, chief executive of Blue Education, who also offer individual instructors, stated that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He wrote that he had relocated from China to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been educated understanding and embodying dual heritages. He continued to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that a single person can act as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can somehow impart the qualities of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, employing a distinctly English tutor from infancy will will not automatically achieve the outcome they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something the expert hopes can be instructed – and marketed.
"I think the reality that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
