"A household based in north London is looking for an extraordinary and experienced instructor to support their youngest child on his early path to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might easily miss the wording "beginning" as simple figurative language.
However, it might be the most significant element of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have since been sent in since the unidentified family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has attracted notice in the media, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding early scepticism, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already set in".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "How you eat, the way 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 explained to the consultant they wished to avoid history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To hire a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they want to cultivate.
He said the tutor had to be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to him the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and provide access.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he comments.
However, despite all this guidance in "English culture", would the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Yes", replied Adam. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who share those reservations.
An education leader, head and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer private tutors, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He noted that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been raised knowing and living two backgrounds. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can function as a living vessel of English culture, someone who can possibly transfer the qualities of a UK sophisticate onto a infant child, appears optimistic and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will does not instantly achieve the goal they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to live many of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity should not be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, English culture is something Adam thinks can be educated – and marketed.
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