"A family based in north London is looking for an exceptional and experienced educator to assist their most junior child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might naturally skip the phrase "first-steps" as mere a turn of phrase.
But, it may be the crucial aspect of this unique job advert, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of submissions have already been submitted since the unnamed family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained notice in the press, with numerous asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, explained that despite initial doubt, he considered the idea "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unusual nature of their request, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already set in".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert answered. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He explained the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family explained to the consultant they did not want the same situation to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a British tutor, who must speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is somewhat acquired indirectly," said the CEO.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to impart.
He said the tutor needed to be somebody who attended "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son grow into a "English gentleman" will lead to accomplishment and provide access.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
However, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with regardless?
"Absolutely", said the CEO. "They realize this could fail, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who express those concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides private tutors, commented that "the development of embracing two identities, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had emigrated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of childhood, and had been raised experiencing and living two backgrounds. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that an individual can act as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can somehow transfer the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, engaging a distinctly British tutor from babyhood will not instantly create the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to live numerous of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity can not be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, English culture is something Adam hopes can be educated – and marketed.
"I think the reality that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
