"A family located in North London seeks an remarkable and qualified instructor to assist their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might naturally overlook the wording "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it could be the crucial part of this unique position posting, as it attempts to hire a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Many of submissions have already been received since the unidentified family advertised their search for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has received notice across the media, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding initial scepticism, he found the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the atypical nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
However, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already set in".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told him they did not want history to happen again with their new baby.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the learning at the beginning here is kind of osmotic," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will adopt the UK customs they wish to impart.
Adam explained the tutor had to be an individual who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he comments.
But, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child pick up so-called cultural leaning from the international family he resides with anyway?
"Absolutely", said he. "The family realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the education sector who share similar doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the period of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying both cultures. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that a single person can act as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will will not necessarily produce the goal they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something Adam hopes can be educated – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the international society views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
