"A family located in north London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to guide their smallest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might readily overlook the wording "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it could be the crucial part of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to hire a tutor for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have already been received since the unidentified family published their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the listing has gained interest across the news, with several wondering why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that notwithstanding first skepticism, he considered the concept "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they recognized the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had by then taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam responded. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the elder child had absorbed "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told him they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their younger child.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the beginning here is kind of osmotic," said the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the British traits they wish to instil.
He noted the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in equestrian activities, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to inspire 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 "pony-riding and learning an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he notes.
But, in spite of all this guidance in "English culture", might the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the international family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", answered Adam. "They realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as early as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share similar concerns.
An education leader, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the process of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from Asia to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been brought up knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that one individual can function as a embodiment of UK identity, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a English gentleman to a infant child, appears optimistic and impractical," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially British tutor from early childhood will will not automatically create the goal they desire.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been fortunate enough to enjoy several of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity can not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something Adam thinks can be educated – and marketed.
"I believe the situation that the international society regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
