"A family residing in North London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled tutor to support their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might easily overlook the wording "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most significant element of this unique employment listing, as it aims to hire a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of responses have now been received since the anonymous family advertised their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the advert has gained interest in the media, with many questioning why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that despite initial scepticism, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they appreciated the atypical nature of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
But, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already set in".
But what did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he replied. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He stated the elder child had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed him they did not want the same situation to recur with their infant.
The plan: To hire a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the start here is kind of osmotic," explained the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they wish to cultivate.
Adam said the tutor had to be somebody who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family plan 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 commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed the expert the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son grow into a "British gentleman" will lead to success and open doors.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
But, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Absolutely", answered he. "The family understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who express similar concerns.
An education leader, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer private tutors, commented that "the journey of embracing two identities, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the time of childhood, and had been raised knowing and embodying both cultures. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The concept that one individual can function as a living vessel of English culture, an individual who can possibly transplant the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he stated.
"Based on my background, having a distinctly UK tutor from early childhood will will not necessarily create the outcome they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity should not be dictated from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something Adam hopes can be educated – and sold.
"I believe the fact that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
