"Parents residing in North London wants to find an remarkable and qualified educator to guide their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily miss the term "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
Yet, it could be the most significant aspect of this unusual job advert, as it aims to find a teacher for a infant.
Many of submissions have now been received since the unidentified family posted their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the post has received attention in the media, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, explained that in spite of early doubt, he viewed the concept "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unusual nature of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
But, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already set in".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", Adam replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to him they wished to avoid history to happen again with their infant.
The strategy: To hire a British tutor, who must speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the beginning here is somewhat osmotic," said the CEO.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they wish to impart.
He noted the tutor had to be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to inspire the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in accomplishment and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he notes.
However, despite all this guidance in "Britishness", could the child absorb so-called cultural leaning from the international family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", said he. "They realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who have similar reservations.
An education leader, head and founder of Blue Education, who provides individual instructors, stated that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He wrote that he had relocated from China to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and practicing dual heritages. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The concept that a single person can act as a embodiment of UK identity, someone who can somehow transplant the qualities of a British gentleman to a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from infancy will not automatically achieve the outcome they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the experiences they hope for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something Adam thinks can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I think the situation that the global community holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
