"A household located in North London seeks an remarkable and qualified instructor to support their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally miss the phrase "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
However, it could be the most important part of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of applications have already been submitted since the unidentified family advertised 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 news, with several asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of first skepticism, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he said they recognized the atypical character of their request, 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 firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had by then set in".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to the consultant they did not want history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The plan: To hire a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the education at the beginning here is rather osmotic," said the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they want to instil.
Adam said the tutor needed to be someone who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
However, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The family know this may not work, but they've just taken the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who have those concerns.
Peter Cui, head and founder of Blue Education, who supplies private tutors, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had moved from China to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been educated experiencing and living two backgrounds. He went on to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that a single person can serve as a representation of UK identity, a person who can somehow impart the characteristics of a UK sophisticate onto a 12-month-old child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly English tutor from babyhood will not necessarily produce the goal they want.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they aspire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
"I think the fact that the world views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
