"A family residing in North London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced educator to support their most junior child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as just figurative language.
However, it might be the crucial element of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to hire a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of applications have now been submitted since the unidentified family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the advert has attracted interest in the press, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, explained that in spite of initial doubt, he considered the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he said they appreciated the unusual aspect of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then set in".
But what did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family told him they did not want this pattern to recur with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," said Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the British traits they aim to impart.
He explained the tutor had to be somebody who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories 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 don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed him the selected educator should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of passions.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of courses 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 grow into a "British gentleman" will lead to success and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he comments.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Absolutely", said the CEO. "The family know this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who have these concerns.
Peter Cui, head and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the process of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
Peter explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been raised experiencing and living dual heritages. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can function as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a English gentleman onto a infant child, seems to me naive and impractical," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a typically English tutor from early childhood will not automatically achieve the goal they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the situations they desire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be imposed from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be taught – and sold.
"I think the reality that the international society holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
