"A family located in North London is looking for an extraordinary and experienced educator to support their smallest child on his initial journey to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally overlook the term "initial stages" as just figurative language.
However, it could be the most important element of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to find a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of applications have now been received since the unnamed family advertised their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the advert has gained notice across the news, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their quest, explained that in spite of first scepticism, he considered the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he mentioned they appreciated the atypical character of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed him they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the learning at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
He explained the tutor must be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, alpine skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "British gentleman" will lead to accomplishment and provide access.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he notes.
However, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the international family he is raised by in any case?
"Yes", answered he. "The family know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who express those reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, forming one's identity, 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 age of childhood, and had been educated understanding and practicing dual heritages. He progressed to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can function as a living vessel of Britishness, an individual who can in some way transfer the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and impractical," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will does not instantly produce the result they desire.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience many of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be forced from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something Adam believes can be taught – and marketed.
"I think the reality that the international society views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
