"Parents located in North London is looking for an remarkable and qualified educator to guide their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily overlook the wording "initial stages" as mere an expression.
However, it could be the crucial element of this unusual position posting, as it aims to find a teacher for a infant.
Many of responses have since been received since the unnamed family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the post has received attention in the media, with many asking why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, chief executive of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their search, said that despite initial doubt, he found the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the atypical aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
However, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already set in".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the development at the beginning here is rather osmotic," explained the expert.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to instil.
Adam said the tutor needed to be somebody who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son become a "English gentleman" will result in success and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child absorb what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The parents realize this may not work, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.
Impractical
Several in the tutoring industry who share similar reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert explained that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He progressed to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can function as a representation of UK identity, an individual who can somehow impart the qualities of a British gentleman to a one-year-old child, appears idealistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a typically British tutor from early childhood will not automatically produce the goal they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and however I have been lucky enough to live several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, personal identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, English culture is something the expert thinks can be instructed – and sold.
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