"A household residing in north London seeks an extraordinary and experienced educator to support their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might readily miss the phrase "initial stages" as simple an expression.
But, it could be the most significant element of this unique position posting, as it attempts to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have already been submitted since the unnamed family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the listing has attracted attention throughout the news, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their quest, said that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he found the idea "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the atypical character of their requirement, and how young their son is.
But, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam replied. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to him they wished to avoid the same situation to repeat itself with their infant.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the learning at the outset here is somewhat absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
Adam explained the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of passions.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and open doors.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", could the child pick up so-called cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with in any case?
"Yes", said he. "They realize this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who share similar doubts.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the development of embracing two identities, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had relocated from Asia to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been educated understanding and living dual heritages. He continued to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that an individual can function as a representation of English culture, a person who can in some way transplant the attributes of a English gentleman onto a infant child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he stated.
"From my perspective, engaging a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily create the result they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to experience numerous of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity should not be dictated from the outside; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Of course, English culture is something Adam thinks can be taught – and marketed.
"I believe the fact that the world holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
