"A family residing in North London wants to find an exceptional and experienced tutor to assist their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally skip the wording "initial stages" as just figurative language.
But, it might be the crucial part of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of applications have already been received since the unidentified family published their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the post has gained attention in the press, with numerous wondering why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding early doubt, he considered the concept "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam answered. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they wished to avoid history to happen again with their new baby.
The intention: To engage a English tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the start here is rather osmotic," stated Adam.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will adopt the British traits they want to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed him the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he comments.
But, in spite of all this instruction in "UK identity", would the child pick up what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", said Adam. "They realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Impractical
Several in the education sector who express those concerns.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies private tutors, wrote that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been brought up understanding and practicing two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can somehow impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, appears optimistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly English tutor from early childhood will does not instantly achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, self-identity can not be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, Britishness is something the expert hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
"I think the fact that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
