"A household based in North London is looking for an exceptional and experienced instructor to guide their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might readily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most significant part of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to find a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of applications have since been submitted since the anonymous family posted their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted interest in the media, with numerous wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, stated that in spite of initial doubt, he found the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they recognized the atypical nature of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait 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 become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam responded. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their younger child.
The plan: To hire a UK tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the development at the beginning here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will acquire the UK customs they aim to cultivate.
Adam explained the tutor must be someone who attended "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed Adam the selected educator should preferably also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in riding, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Absolutely", answered he. "The family know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the view of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who share similar reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer private tutors, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
He noted that he had moved from Asia to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been raised understanding and practicing dual heritages. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The idea that an individual can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can somehow transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate upon a 12-month-old child, appears optimistic and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a quintessentially UK tutor from early childhood will not automatically achieve the goal they hope for.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to enjoy many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity cannot be imposed from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, English culture is something the expert believes can be taught – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the global community regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
