"Parents located in the northern part of London seeks an remarkable and skilled instructor to support their most junior child on his early path to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might readily skip the phrase "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
However, it may be the most significant element of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to find a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of applications have now been received since the unidentified family advertised their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has attracted attention across the news, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, stated that despite first doubt, he found the concept "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unusual aspect of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family told him they hoped to prevent this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a English tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the development at the outset here is somewhat acquired indirectly," explained the expert.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they want to cultivate.
He noted the tutor had to be someone who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories 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, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family told him the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Additionally though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son become a "English gentleman" will result in accomplishment and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he comments.
However, despite all this guidance in "Britishness", would the child adopt alleged cultural bias from the international family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who have these doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides individual instructors, commented that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
He noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated experiencing and embodying both cultures. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that an individual can function as a embodiment of Britishness, an individual who can possibly transfer the attributes of a British gentleman to a infant child, appears idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically English tutor from infancy will does not automatically achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be imposed from the outside; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something Adam believes can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I think the reality that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
