"A household based in north London wants to find an exceptional and qualified tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily skip the phrase "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
However, it might be the most significant element of this unique position posting, as it aims to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of responses have since been submitted since the unnamed family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has gained interest across the news, with many questioning why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of initial scepticism, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unusual nature of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already become established".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", he answered. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The plan: To bring in a English tutor, who should speak with RP, to shape the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the education at the outset here is somewhat absorbed naturally," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to instil.
He noted the tutor needed to be somebody who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Additionally though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son grow into a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this instruction in "English culture", could the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by in any case?
"Absolutely", replied the CEO. "The family know this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who express these doubts.
An education leader, head and founder of an educational organization, who provides personal educators, commented that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been brought up knowing and living two backgrounds. He continued to study at Cambridge University.
"The notion that a single person can act as a representation of Britishness, someone who can in some way transplant the attributes of a British gentleman to a infant child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a quintessentially UK tutor from infancy will does not automatically create the outcome they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to live numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO believes can be instructed – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the global community holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
