"A household located in North London is looking for an remarkable and qualified tutor to support their most junior child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this advertisement, you might easily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
But, it may be the most important element of this distinctive position posting, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the unnamed family posted their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has received attention throughout the press, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their search, explained that despite early scepticism, he viewed the concept "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they recognized the unusual aspect of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already set in".
What precisely did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert answered. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family told the consultant they hoped to prevent history to recur with their younger child.
The strategy: To bring in a English tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," said Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the UK customs they want to cultivate.
Adam said the tutor must be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a range of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he comments.
However, notwithstanding all this instruction in "Britishness", could the child adopt so-called cultural leaning from the international family he lives with in any case?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "They realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and let's go as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who express those reservations.
An education leader, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer personal educators, stated that "the process of embracing two identities, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the United Kingdom at the time of childhood, and had been brought up understanding and living both cultures. He went on to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The idea that an individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, an individual who can possibly transplant the attributes of a English gentleman to a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a quintessentially English tutor from babyhood will not instantly produce the goal they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, personal identity can not be forced from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something Adam thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
"I believe the fact that the international society regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating