"Parents residing in north London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced tutor to guide their youngest child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might naturally overlook the wording "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most important element of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of applications have already been submitted since the unnamed family advertised their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted notice throughout the media, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, said that in spite of initial skepticism, he viewed the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he noted they understood the unconventional character of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
But, they stated 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 stage "cultural bias had already set in".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert replied. "How you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed the consultant they did not want the same situation to recur with their new baby.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," said Adam.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they want to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be someone who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have knowledge of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a range of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son grow into a "British gentleman" will result in accomplishment and provide access.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he notes.
But, in spite of all this tutelage in "Britishness", might the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with in any case?
"Yes", said he. "They understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who have these reservations.
An education leader, head and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
He wrote that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been brought up knowing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can serve as a representation of UK identity, a person who can possibly transplant the qualities of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially English tutor from early childhood will not necessarily create the goal they want.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy several of the situations they aspire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity should not be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the expert believes can be instructed – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
