"A family located in north London is looking for an remarkable and experienced tutor to guide their smallest child on his initial journey to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily miss the term "beginning" as just figurative language.
Yet, it might be the crucial aspect of this unique position posting, as it aims to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of submissions have since been sent in since the anonymous family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has attracted interest throughout the media, with several asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their quest, said that despite early skepticism, he viewed the idea "visionary", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the unconventional character of their demand, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already set in".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family told Adam they wished to avoid the same situation to recur with their infant.
The intention: To engage a English tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the start here is somewhat osmotic," explained the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they want to instil.
The consultant explained the tutor must be somebody who studied at "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have understanding of or passion in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of passions.
Additionally though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son grow into a "English gentleman" will bring about success and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child absorb so-called cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Absolutely", answered the CEO. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
There are some in the tutoring industry who have these reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He wrote that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing both cultures. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can in some way impart the attributes of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will not automatically produce the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to live several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something Adam thinks can be educated – and marketed.
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