"Parents located in north London is looking for an remarkable and skilled educator to assist their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily miss the wording "initial stages" as just figurative language.
Yet, it may be the most important aspect of this distinctive employment listing, as it seeks to hire a mentor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have since been received since the unnamed family published their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained interest in the media, with several asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that despite initial scepticism, he found the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he noted they understood the atypical nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
However, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to recur with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who must speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is somewhat acquired indirectly," said the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they want to instil.
The consultant said the tutor must be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son grow into a "English gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
Yet, despite all this instruction in "English culture", might the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "The family realize this could fail, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who have those reservations.
Peter Cui, chief executive of an educational organization, who provides individual instructors, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had moved from China to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been raised understanding and practicing dual heritages. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The notion that a single person can act as a embodiment of UK identity, a person who can in some way transplant the attributes of a English gentleman to a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will will not necessarily create the result they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to live several of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, self-identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, English culture is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
"I believe the fact that the international society regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
