"A household located in North London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced tutor to assist their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily miss the wording "initial stages" as mere an expression.
But, it could be the most important element of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to find a tutor for a infant.
Numerous of responses have since been submitted since the unnamed family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the post has received interest across the news, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, said that despite early doubt, he found the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unconventional character of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already become established".
But what did the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He stated the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent this pattern to happen again with their new baby.
The intention: To hire a British tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the development at the beginning here is kind of acquired indirectly," said the CEO.
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 had to be someone who studied at "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or interest in equestrian activities, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son develop into a "British gentleman" will lead to accomplishment and create opportunities.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who share these concerns.
An education leader, head and founder of Blue Education, who provides individual instructors, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert explained that he had relocated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the time of 7 years old, and had been brought up knowing and practicing both cultures. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a representation of English culture, a person who can possibly impart the qualities of a English gentleman upon a infant child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"In my experience, having a typically English tutor from infancy will will not necessarily create the result they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, cultural identity cannot be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something the CEO thinks can be instructed – and marketed.
"I believe the reality that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
