"A family located in North London wants to find an extraordinary and qualified instructor to guide their smallest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily overlook the wording "beginning" as mere figurative language.
However, it could be the most important element of this unique job advert, as it seeks to find a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have now been received since the anonymous family published their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has gained attention across the press, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their search, said that in spite of early doubt, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they understood the atypical nature of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to him they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their infant.
The strategy: To engage a English tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the learning at the outset here is kind of osmotic," said Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they want to cultivate.
He said the tutor needed to be somebody who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in equestrian activities, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and open doors.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", might the child adopt what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with regardless?
"Absolutely", replied the CEO. "They understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who share similar doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides individual instructors, wrote that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the period of seven, and had been educated understanding and living both cultures. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can act as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can somehow transfer the qualities of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly British tutor from infancy will not automatically create the result they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to live many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, English culture is something the expert believes can be taught – and marketed.
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