"A household located in north London wants to find an exceptional and experienced tutor to support their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might easily skip the wording "initial stages" as just figurative language.
However, it may be the crucial part of this unusual position posting, as it aims to hire a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of responses have now been received since the unnamed family published their request for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted attention in the press, with numerous asking why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their search, explained that despite initial doubt, he found the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they appreciated the atypical character of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already set in".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had absorbed "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent history to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To hire a UK tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the education at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," stated Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to instil.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be someone who attended "prestigious academies – 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 aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
More than that though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child adopt alleged cultural bias from the international family he lives with regardless?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The family realize this could fail, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who share similar concerns.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the time of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to study at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can function as a living vessel of English culture, an individual who can possibly transfer the attributes of a UK sophisticate upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"In my experience, having a distinctly English tutor from infancy will does not necessarily achieve the result they want.
"I did not have such a tutor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience many of the situations they desire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and marketed.
"I think the fact that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
