"Parents residing in north London is looking for an remarkable and skilled tutor to support their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this advertisement, you might easily miss the term "initial stages" as just an expression.
But, it might be the most important part of this unique job advert, as it aims to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have already been submitted since the unidentified family posted their request for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the post has received interest throughout the press, with numerous wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their search, explained that despite first scepticism, he viewed the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural bias had by then set in".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the elder child had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent this pattern to recur with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the beginning here is rather osmotic," said the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the British traits they wish to impart.
The consultant noted the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will result in success and create opportunities.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he notes.
Yet, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "They know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who express similar reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies personal educators, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He noted that he had moved from China to the United Kingdom at the period of childhood, and had been educated experiencing and embodying both cultures. He progressed to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that one individual can serve as a representation of English culture, an individual who can in some way impart the attributes of a English gentleman to a one-year-old child, appears naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"From my perspective, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from babyhood will not necessarily achieve the outcome they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to live several of the situations they desire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, personal identity should not be forced from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be educated – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the world regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
