"A family based in North London wants to find an exceptional and experienced educator to support their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily overlook the wording "initial stages" as mere an expression.
However, it may be the most significant part of this distinctive job advert, as it attempts to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have already been submitted since the anonymous family posted their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained attention in the news, with many questioning why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their search, explained that in spite of first skepticism, he considered the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they appreciated the atypical nature of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the elder child had picked up "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their infant.
The strategy: To bring in a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the start here is rather osmotic," explained the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they wish to instil.
Adam said the tutor must be someone who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in riding, winter sports, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he explained the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a range 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, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about accomplishment and open doors.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
But, despite all this instruction in "UK identity", would the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the international family he lives with in any case?
"Yes", said he. "The parents know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the education sector who share similar concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the development of embracing two identities, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
Peter wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been brought up knowing and embodying both cultures. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can act as a representation of English culture, someone who can possibly transfer the attributes of a UK sophisticate onto a one-year-old child, appears idealistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will not necessarily produce the result they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and however I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be imposed from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Of course, Britishness is something Adam hopes can be taught – and commercialized.
"I believe the situation that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
