"Parents located in North London seeks an exceptional and experienced tutor to guide their smallest child on his early path to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally skip the wording "initial stages" as simple an expression.
However, it may be the most important aspect of this unusual position posting, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have since been sent in since the anonymous family published their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained notice across the press, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, said that in spite of first skepticism, he viewed the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already set in".
But what did the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", he replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the development at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," explained Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they wish to cultivate.
The consultant noted the tutor needed to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or passion in riding, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son develop into a "English gentleman" will bring about success and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he notes.
Yet, despite all this guidance in "English culture", might the child pick up what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by in any case?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "The family realize this may not work, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the education sector who share these reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the development of embracing two identities, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
Peter explained that he had emigrated from China to the United Kingdom at the time of seven, and had been educated experiencing and living two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that a single person can function as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can possibly transfer the characteristics of a English gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he commented.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly English tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily produce the outcome they want.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience several of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity should not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, Britishness is something Adam believes can be educated – and sold.
"I believe the reality that the international society regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
