"Parents located in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and qualified tutor to assist their most junior child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the phrase "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
Yet, it could be the most important part of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to hire a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have already been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the listing has received attention in the press, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their search, stated that despite early skepticism, he found the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they recognized the atypical nature of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already taken hold".
What exactly does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he answered. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family explained to Adam they did not want the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the development at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," said the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the UK customs they wish to instil.
The consultant said the tutor had to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "British gentleman" will result in accomplishment and provide access.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "Britishness", might the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the international family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", answered Adam. "They realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'we should try and we should start as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the education sector who express these reservations.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer personal educators, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He explained that he had emigrated from China to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying both cultures. He went on to study at Cambridge University.
"The notion that an individual can act as a embodiment of UK identity, an individual who can in some way transfer the qualities of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and unrealistic," he wrote.
"Based on my background, having a typically British tutor from infancy will not necessarily create the goal they want.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to live many of the situations they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be educated – and marketed.
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