"Parents located in North London is looking for an remarkable and qualified tutor to support their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the wording "beginning" as simple an expression.
However, it might be the crucial aspect of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of submissions have since been sent in since the unnamed family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained notice in the media, with numerous questioning why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that despite first skepticism, he found the idea "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the unusual nature of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, 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 influence had already taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam answered. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He explained the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent this pattern to repeat itself with their infant.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the education at the outset here is rather acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to impart.
Adam noted the tutor must be somebody who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing 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 interest in horse riding, skiing, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son become a "English gentleman" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child absorb so-called cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with in any case?
"Absolutely", replied he. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the tutoring industry who have these concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He noted that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been educated understanding and practicing dual heritages. He progressed to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that one individual can function as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can possibly transfer the attributes of a British gentleman to a one-year-old child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will does not necessarily create the outcome they hope for.
"I did not have such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience many of the experiences they desire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be educated – and marketed.
"I think the situation that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
