"Parents located in north London wants to find an exceptional and qualified instructor to assist their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might readily miss the term "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
Yet, it may be the most important part of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have already been sent in since the anonymous family posted their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has attracted interest across the press, with numerous asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their hunt, said that despite initial scepticism, he considered the concept "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he said they recognized the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
But, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then set in".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had absorbed "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they hoped to prevent this pattern to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the beginning here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the British traits they aim to impart.
Adam noted the tutor had to be an individual who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed him the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape 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 lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
But, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child adopt so-called cultural leaning from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Certainly", answered Adam. "They know this could fail, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who share similar reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
Peter noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the time of seven, and had been raised understanding and living two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that a single person can function as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can in some way impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a typically British tutor from early childhood will does not necessarily create the result they want.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be imposed from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO believes can be educated – and commercialized.
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