"Parents located in North London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled educator to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it could be the most significant element of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have already been sent in since the anonymous family published their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has gained interest across the news, with numerous questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their hunt, stated that despite initial scepticism, he viewed the idea "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the unconventional character of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified 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 stage "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To hire a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," stated the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to impart.
The consultant noted the tutor had to be someone who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have familiarity of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in accomplishment and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he adds.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", would the child adopt so-called cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", replied the CEO. "They know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the private teaching field who express similar concerns.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides private tutors, commented that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
He wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the period of seven, and had been educated understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that one individual can act as a living vessel of UK identity, someone who can possibly impart the qualities of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me optimistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from infancy will not instantly achieve the goal they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience several of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, personal identity should not be imposed from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the expert believes can be taught – and marketed.
"I think the fact that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
