"A family residing in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and skilled instructor to support their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as just an expression.
But, it may be the most important part of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of applications have already been sent in since the anonymous family posted their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has received interest in the media, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their search, said that despite initial skepticism, he viewed the concept "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he said they understood the unconventional nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural influence had by then become established".
What exactly did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the older sibling had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family informed Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their younger child.
The plan: To hire a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the outset here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's via this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the British traits they want to impart.
The consultant noted the tutor had to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in riding, winter sports, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Additionally though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he notes.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child pick up so-called cultural leaning from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", said the CEO. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who share those doubts.
Peter Cui, head and founder of Blue Education, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been brought up knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can act as a representation of UK identity, an individual who can in some way impart the attributes of a English gentleman onto a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"In my experience, employing a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will will not instantly create the outcome they desire.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience several of the situations they aspire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the world holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
