"A family located in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and experienced instructor to guide their youngest child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally miss the phrase "beginning" as mere an expression.
But, it may be the crucial part of this distinctive position posting, as it attempts to hire a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of submissions have since been submitted since the unnamed family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the post has received interest across the news, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their hunt, stated that despite first skepticism, he found the plan "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the unusual aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already become established".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", Adam responded. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family told Adam they did not want history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The plan: To bring in a British tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," stated the CEO.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the British traits they aim to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be somebody who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor must 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 told him the chosen tutor should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in riding, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Yes", said he. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who express similar doubts.
Peter Cui, head and founder of Blue Education, who also offer individual instructors, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert noted that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the time of childhood, and had been raised understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can act as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can somehow transplant the attributes of a UK sophisticate onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, employing a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will not necessarily produce the result they desire.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to live several of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and commercialized.
"In my view the situation that the global community holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
