"A household based in north London seeks an exceptional and experienced educator to support their youngest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
When reading this advertisement, you might readily skip the term "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most significant element of this unusual position posting, as it aims to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of submissions have since been submitted since the anonymous family published their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the post has attracted attention throughout the media, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their hunt, explained that despite early skepticism, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they recognized the unconventional nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert responded. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the older sibling had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to him they wished to avoid the same situation to recur with their infant.
The strategy: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the learning at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they want to instil.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be somebody who attended "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator must be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Money No Object
The family told him the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Additionally though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a variety 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 minds, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will result in accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he adds.
However, despite all this instruction in "English culture", would the child absorb what is termed cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "They realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and we should start as soon as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who express these concerns.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who provides individual instructors, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a representation of Britishness, a person who can in some way impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly British tutor from infancy will not instantly produce the result they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to experience many of the situations they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, cultural identity should not be dictated from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something Adam thinks can be taught – and marketed.
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