"A household residing in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and skilled instructor to guide their smallest child on his initial journey to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might readily overlook the term "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
However, it could be the most significant element of this unusual job advert, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have already been received since the unnamed family posted their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has attracted interest in the media, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding early skepticism, he found the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural bias had by then become established".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told him they did not want the same situation to recur with their younger child.
The strategy: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the education at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," explained the CEO.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the UK customs they aim to cultivate.
Adam said the tutor needed to be somebody who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son become a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and provide access.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he notes.
However, despite all this guidance in "English culture", might the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", replied the CEO. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the private teaching field who express those doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of Blue Education, who supplies individual instructors, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
He noted that he had moved from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of childhood, and had been educated understanding and embodying both cultures. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can act as a embodiment of Britishness, an individual who can in some way impart the attributes of a UK sophisticate onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly British tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily produce the outcome they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the situations they hope for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, personal identity can not be forced from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and marketed.
"In my view the situation that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
