"Parents located in North London wants to find an exceptional and skilled tutor to support their smallest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might readily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it could be the crucial element of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have now been sent in since the unnamed family posted their search for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has gained attention across the press, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their quest, said that despite first scepticism, he viewed the concept "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they appreciated the atypical character of their request, and how immature their son is.
But, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already become established".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He stated the elder child had absorbed "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told him they wished to avoid history to repeat itself with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the education at the start here is rather osmotic," explained the expert.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they wish to instil.
Adam noted the tutor must be an individual who studied at "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or passion in horse riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and provide access.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", might the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "They realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the view of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the education sector who share similar doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, wrote that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been educated experiencing and living dual heritages. He progressed to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can function as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can possibly impart the characteristics of a British gentleman to a 12-month-old child, strikes me as naive and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from babyhood will does not automatically create the goal they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the experiences they hope for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity can not be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something the expert believes can be taught – and marketed.
"I think the fact that the international society holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
