"A family located in north London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled educator to assist their youngest child on his initial journey to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might easily overlook the wording "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the most important aspect of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the unidentified family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has received attention throughout the news, with numerous wondering why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that notwithstanding early scepticism, he considered the concept "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they understood the atypical aspect of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert answered. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told him they wished to avoid history to happen again with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the outset here is rather absorbed naturally," said the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they aim to instil.
He noted the tutor had to be someone who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in riding, skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a range of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son become a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he comments.
But, despite all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the international family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", answered Adam. "The parents know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the education sector who express those doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert wrote that he had moved from China to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He continued to learn at Cambridge University.
"The concept that an individual can act as a representation of English culture, an individual who can possibly transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate onto a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"From my perspective, employing a distinctly British tutor from babyhood will not instantly create the result they hope for.
"I did not have such a tutor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be educated – and sold.
"I think the reality that the world regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
