"Parents based in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their most junior child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might easily miss the wording "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it could be the crucial aspect of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have already been received since the anonymous family published their request for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the post has attracted interest in the press, with several questioning why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of early scepticism, he viewed the idea "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the atypical aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had already set in".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam replied. "How you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family informed him they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their infant.
The intention: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to shape the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the learning at the outset here is kind of osmotic," said the expert.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they want to instil.
He noted the tutor had to be somebody who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Additionally though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to accomplishment and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he comments.
But, despite all this tutelage in "Britishness", might the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the international family he is raised by in any case?
"Certainly", answered he. "They understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the tutoring industry who share similar reservations.
Peter Cui, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies personal educators, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
Peter explained that he had moved from Asia to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, someone who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, appears naive and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will will not automatically produce the goal they desire.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to live numerous of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, cultural identity should not be forced from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and sold.
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