"A family based in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and experienced instructor to support their smallest child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as just figurative language.
Yet, it could be the crucial element of this unusual position posting, as it attempts to recruit a mentor for a infant.
Many of submissions have since been submitted since the anonymous family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the listing has attracted interest across the media, with many questioning why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that despite initial scepticism, he found the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he said they appreciated the atypical nature of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already set in".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam replied. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He stated the older sibling had picked up "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to repeat itself with their infant.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will adopt the British traits they aim to instil.
Adam explained the tutor must be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or interest in horse riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and create opportunities.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he comments.
However, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child absorb so-called cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with regardless?
"Absolutely", said the CEO. "The family realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the education sector who share similar concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had moved from Asia to the United Kingdom at the time of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and living both cultures. He progressed to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that a single person can act as a representation of English culture, an individual who can possibly transplant the characteristics of a British gentleman onto a infant child, appears optimistic and impractical," he wrote.
"From my perspective, employing a typically English tutor from babyhood will does not automatically create the goal they want.
"I never had such a figure, and however I have been fortunate enough to live many of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
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 light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
