"A family based in north London is looking for an remarkable and skilled instructor to guide their youngest child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might readily skip the term "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
Yet, it may be the most significant part of this unique position posting, as it attempts to recruit a mentor for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have already been submitted since the anonymous family posted their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has received attention in the media, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that in spite of initial scepticism, he found the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he said they recognized the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family informed Adam they did not want the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the outset here is rather osmotic," said Adam.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will adopt the UK customs they want to impart.
Adam explained the tutor must be an individual who went to "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to him the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in equestrian activities, skiing, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
Additionally though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son develop into a "English gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and open doors.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he adds.
Yet, despite all this guidance in "English culture", might the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "They understand this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who express these doubts.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer personal educators, wrote that "the development of embracing two identities, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been educated understanding and living two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that a single person can function as a representation of Britishness, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate onto a 12-month-old child, appears naive and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will does not necessarily produce the result they want.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the situations they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, English culture is something Adam hopes can be instructed – and commercialized.
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