"A family based in North London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced educator to assist their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as mere an expression.
However, it could be the most important element of this distinctive job advert, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have since been submitted since the anonymous family posted their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received attention throughout the media, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that despite first skepticism, he considered the idea "visionary", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they understood the unconventional nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
What exactly did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with RP, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the beginning here is kind of osmotic," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the British traits they wish to impart.
Adam said the tutor had to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to him the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
But, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", might the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "The family realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who share similar doubts.
Peter Cui, chief executive of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had relocated from Asia to the Britain at the time of seven, and had been educated understanding and practicing both cultures. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The idea that an individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can in some way transplant the qualities of a British gentleman upon a infant child, strikes me as idealistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a typically English tutor from early childhood will does not automatically achieve the outcome they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to live many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity cannot be forced from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Of course, English culture is something Adam hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
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