"A family residing in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and skilled instructor to guide their smallest child on his initial journey to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily miss the term "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the crucial part of this unique job advert, as it attempts to hire a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have now been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has attracted attention throughout the news, with many asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, explained that in spite of early skepticism, he considered the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then set in".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", Adam replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family informed the consultant they wished to avoid history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the outset here is rather osmotic," said the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they wish to impart.
He said the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or interest in riding, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he notes.
But, notwithstanding all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", replied the CEO. "They know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the education sector who express similar reservations.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
Peter explained that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised understanding and practicing two backgrounds. He progressed to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a living vessel of English culture, someone who can somehow transplant the attributes of a British gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a typically English tutor from early childhood will will not necessarily produce the outcome they desire.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience several of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the expert believes can be taught – and sold.
"I believe the reality that the international society regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
