"Parents located in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and qualified instructor to support their smallest child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally skip the term "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
But, it may be the crucial element of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of applications have already been sent in since the anonymous family posted their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received attention in the media, with numerous questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, explained that despite early scepticism, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the unconventional nature of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then become established".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he replied. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed the consultant they wished to avoid the same situation to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To hire a English tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," said the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they wish to impart.
He said the tutor had to be somebody who went to "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in riding, winter sports, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "English gentleman" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he adds.
However, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", could the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "The family understand this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the education sector who share those concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of Blue Education, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
Peter wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and embodying dual heritages. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that an individual can act as a embodiment of UK identity, someone who can possibly transfer the characteristics of a British gentleman to a infant child, appears optimistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will will not necessarily produce the result they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, cultural identity should not be forced from the outside; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, English culture is something Adam thinks can be educated – and marketed.
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