"Parents based in North London seeks an exceptional and qualified tutor to support their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally miss the phrase "first-steps" as just figurative language.
However, it might be the most significant aspect of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Many of responses have since been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained notice throughout the media, with several questioning why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their hunt, said that in spite of initial scepticism, he found the concept "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the unusual character of their requirement, and how young their son is.
But, 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 age "cultural influence had already become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the older sibling had absorbed "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the outset here is rather acquired indirectly," said the expert.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the English characteristics they wish to cultivate.
Adam said the tutor must be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he adds.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the education sector who share those doubts.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer personal educators, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
He wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been educated knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can function as a representation of UK identity, someone who can somehow transfer the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and impractical," he stated.
"Based on my background, having a typically British tutor from infancy will not automatically produce the outcome they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to live many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, cultural identity should not be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and marketed.
"I think the reality that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
