"Parents located in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and experienced educator to guide their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might naturally skip the phrase "initial stages" as mere an expression.
However, it could be the most significant aspect of this unique job advert, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of responses have since been sent in since the unidentified family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the listing has attracted notice in the news, with numerous asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, chief executive of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that despite early doubt, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the atypical nature of their request, and how immature their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then become established".
What precisely did the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family explained to him they hoped to prevent the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a UK tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the learning at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," said Adam.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to instil.
Adam explained the tutor had to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or passion in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this guidance in "Britishness", would the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the international family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The family realize this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who express these doubts.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who supplies personal educators, commented that "the process of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the United Kingdom at the time of childhood, and had been educated knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that one individual can serve as a representation of UK identity, someone who can somehow transfer the attributes of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, appears optimistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"From my perspective, engaging a quintessentially British tutor from infancy will does not necessarily achieve the goal they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, self-identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Of course, English culture is something the expert believes can be instructed – and marketed.
"In my view the situation that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
