"A family based in the northern part of London seeks an remarkable and skilled educator to assist their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might naturally skip the phrase "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
However, it could be the crucial element of this distinctive position posting, as it seeks to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of responses have already been received since the anonymous family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has gained interest throughout the news, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he viewed the concept "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he said they understood the atypical character of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already set in".
What exactly does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam responded. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they did not want this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the development at the start here is kind of osmotic," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told Adam the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, creative fields and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son become a "English gentleman" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, despite all this instruction in "UK identity", might the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied he. "They realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and let's go as early as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the education sector who have those concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who supplies private tutors, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
Peter noted that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the time of seven, and had been educated experiencing and living two backgrounds. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can act as a representation of English culture, someone who can possibly transplant the qualities of a British gentleman upon a infant child, strikes me as naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly English tutor from early childhood will not automatically achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity can not be dictated from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, UK identity is something Adam hopes can be instructed – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
