"A family residing in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and experienced instructor to guide their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily miss the wording "beginning" as mere a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the most significant element of this unique position posting, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has gained notice throughout the media, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their quest, stated that in spite of first scepticism, he viewed the idea "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they appreciated the unusual nature of their request, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural bias had by then taken hold".
But what does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he answered. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their new baby.
The plan: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the learning at the start here is rather osmotic," explained Adam.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will pick up the British traits they wish to cultivate.
He noted the tutor had to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a range of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and open doors.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
But, despite all this instruction in "English culture", could the child absorb so-called cultural leaning from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "The family understand this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who share these concerns.
Peter Cui, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had moved from China to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been educated knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He went on to learn at Cambridge University.
"The notion that one individual can act as a embodiment of UK identity, someone who can in some way impart the qualities of a English gentleman onto a one-year-old child, seems to me naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically British tutor from babyhood will not instantly achieve the outcome they want.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to enjoy several of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, self-identity should not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the CEO thinks can be instructed – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
