"A household located in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced instructor to support their most junior child on his initial journey to turning into an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might naturally overlook the phrase "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it could be the crucial element of this unique job advert, as it seeks to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained attention in the press, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their search, explained that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he considered the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he said they appreciated the unconventional nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already set in".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had absorbed "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family informed him they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a UK tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the learning at the outset here is somewhat acquired indirectly," said the CEO.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to instil.
The consultant said the tutor had to be somebody who studied at "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the selected educator should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in riding, skiing, creative fields and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Furthermore though, he said the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a range of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son become a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
But, despite all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child adopt what is termed cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by regardless?
"Certainly", answered the CEO. "They realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who express these doubts.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the period of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and living dual heritages. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that a single person can function as a living vessel of UK identity, someone who can in some way transplant the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a 12-month-old child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"In my experience, having a quintessentially English tutor from babyhood will does not instantly achieve the outcome they want.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to enjoy many of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, cultural identity cannot be imposed from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the expert thinks can be instructed – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the international society regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
