"A family based in north London is looking for an extraordinary and qualified tutor to support their smallest child on his early path to becoming an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily skip the term "initial stages" as just an expression.
Yet, it might be the most important part of this distinctive employment listing, as it aims to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the anonymous family posted their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has received attention in the media, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding first scepticism, he viewed the idea "visionary", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the atypical character of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had by then become established".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family explained to him they wished to avoid history to happen again with their younger child.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the English characteristics they wish to instil.
Adam noted the tutor must be an individual who studied at "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he stated the family desired the tutor to register the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
However, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", would the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the multicultural family he resides with regardless?
"Yes", said Adam. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who express these concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
Peter explained that he had relocated from Asia to the UK at the time of 7 years old, and had been brought up understanding and living two backgrounds. He continued to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that one individual can serve as a living vessel of English culture, an individual who can possibly impart the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, employing a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will not instantly produce the goal they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to experience several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and marketed.
"In my view the fact that the world views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
