"A household residing in North London wants to find an exceptional and experienced educator to assist their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily skip the phrase "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
But, it could be the crucial aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to find a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have now been sent in since the unnamed family published their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted notice across the media, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that despite first doubt, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already set in".
But what did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they wished to avoid history to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the education at the beginning here is rather osmotic," said Adam.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will adopt the British traits they aim to impart.
Adam explained the tutor must be somebody who went to "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the chosen tutor should preferably also have familiarity of or interest in horse riding, skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
But, in spite of all this tutelage in "Britishness", might the child adopt alleged cultural influence from the international family he resides with in any case?
"Absolutely", answered he. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share similar reservations.
An education leader, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been educated experiencing and embodying both cultures. He went on to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a representation of Britishness, a person who can in some way transfer the attributes of a UK sophisticate onto a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a typically English tutor from infancy will not instantly create the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, personal identity should not be dictated from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something Adam thinks can be taught – and sold.
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