"A family located in north London seeks an exceptional and qualified instructor to assist their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally skip the term "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
However, it could be the most significant aspect of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of applications have already been submitted since the unidentified family posted their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the advert has gained interest across the news, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that notwithstanding first skepticism, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the atypical character of their request, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then become established".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", he responded. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the outset here is rather acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's via this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they wish to cultivate.
He said the tutor had to be someone who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to the expert the selected educator should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in riding, skiing, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Furthermore though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son develop into a "English gentleman" will lead to success and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
Yet, notwithstanding all this instruction in "English culture", could the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Certainly", said the CEO. "The parents know this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
Several in the tutoring industry who have similar reservations.
An education leader, head and founder of an educational organization, who provides individual instructors, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the time of seven, and had been raised knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can act as a living vessel of English culture, someone who can in some way transfer the attributes of a British gentleman to a infant child, strikes me as optimistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"From my perspective, engaging a typically UK tutor from infancy will does not instantly produce the goal they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the situations they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, self-identity should not be imposed from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, English culture is something the expert believes can be taught – and sold.
"I think the situation that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
