"A household based in north London wants to find an remarkable and qualified tutor to assist their smallest child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily overlook the term "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it could be the most significant part of this distinctive job advert, as it seeks to find a tutor for a infant.
Numerous of responses have now been received since the anonymous family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received interest across the press, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their quest, explained that in spite of first skepticism, he viewed the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the atypical aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then set in".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He stated the older sibling had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to him they did not want this pattern to repeat itself with their infant.
The intention: To hire a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the start here is rather osmotic," said Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will pick up the English characteristics they want to instil.
The consultant said the tutor must be somebody who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or passion in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of passions.
More than that though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and open doors.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he notes.
Yet, despite all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by regardless?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The family know this could fail, but they've just taken the view of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as early as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who share these doubts.
An education leader, head and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
Peter noted that he had relocated from China to the United Kingdom at the time of seven, and had been raised knowing and living dual heritages. He continued to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can function as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can possibly impart the attributes of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me naive and impractical," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially UK tutor from babyhood will does not automatically achieve the goal they hope for.
"I did not have such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to live many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, UK identity is something the expert believes can be taught – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the world holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
