"Parents residing in north London wants to find an exceptional and qualified educator to support their youngest child on his initial journey to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might readily miss the phrase "beginning" as just figurative language.
Yet, it may be the crucial part of this unusual position posting, as it aims to hire a teacher for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of responses have already been sent in since the anonymous family published their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has gained notice across the media, with many questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their search, explained that in spite of first skepticism, he considered the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he said they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had by then become established".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he answered. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family informed the consultant they hoped to prevent this pattern to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the beginning here is kind of absorbed naturally," stated the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to impart.
He noted the tutor had to be someone who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed the expert the selected educator should preferably also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a wide range 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 "equestrian training and picking up an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with in any case?
"Certainly", answered the CEO. "They understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who share similar reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides individual instructors, stated that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been brought up knowing and living two backgrounds. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can act as a living vessel of Britishness, an individual who can somehow transplant the attributes of a English gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, strikes me as optimistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly British tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to live several of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something Adam thinks can be taught – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the world views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
