"Parents located in North London is looking for an exceptional and experienced educator to support their most junior child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily skip the phrase "initial stages" as mere an expression.
However, it might be the most important part of this unique job advert, as it seeks to recruit a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of responses have since been sent in since the anonymous family published their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the advert has attracted notice throughout the media, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of initial doubt, he viewed the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the atypical aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
But, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam answered. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the older sibling had picked up "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to him they did not want history to recur with their infant.
The intention: To engage a English tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the outset here is somewhat absorbed naturally," said Adam.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will acquire the UK customs they want to impart.
He said the tutor had to be an individual who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the chosen tutor should preferably also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, skiing, creative fields and music so as to influence the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
But, in spite of all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Absolutely", replied he. "The family know this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who share similar concerns.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies private tutors, wrote that "the process of embracing two identities, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the age of seven, and had been educated experiencing and living both cultures. He progressed to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can act as a representation of English culture, a person who can possibly impart the attributes of a English gentleman onto a infant child, appears idealistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a quintessentially English tutor from early childhood will not necessarily achieve the result they desire.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, self-identity should not be imposed from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be taught – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the world holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
