"A family located in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and experienced instructor to guide their smallest child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might readily skip the wording "initial stages" as just an expression.
Yet, it may be the most important part of this unique job advert, as it seeks to find a tutor for a infant.
Many of submissions have now been submitted since the unnamed family posted their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received interest across the media, with several questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, stated that despite early doubt, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unconventional character of their request, and how early in age their son is.
But, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already become established".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told him they hoped to prevent history to recur with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the development at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they aim to cultivate.
Adam said the tutor had to be someone who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Money No Object
The family told him the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Additionally though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he notes.
However, despite all this guidance in "English culture", would the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by regardless?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The family know this could fail, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who share those reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of an educational organization, who supplies personal educators, wrote that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the time of childhood, and had been raised understanding and practicing both cultures. He continued to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that an individual can function as a embodiment of UK identity, a person who can in some way transfer the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a 12-month-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will not automatically create the result they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, self-identity cannot be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and commercialized.
"In my view the fact that the global community holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
