"Parents located in North London seeks an remarkable and skilled tutor to support their smallest child on his initial journey to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily skip the term "initial stages" as simple an expression.
However, it may be the most important aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of submissions have since been sent in since the anonymous family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has received notice in the news, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of early scepticism, he considered the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they appreciated the atypical character of their demand, and how immature their son is.
But, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already taken hold".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he answered. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their new baby.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the outset here is rather acquired indirectly," explained the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they aim to impart.
He said the tutor had to be an individual who went to "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to shape 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 lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and provide access.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he comments.
Yet, notwithstanding all this instruction in "Britishness", might the child adopt alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The family understand this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who share those doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
He noted that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the time of seven, and had been educated experiencing and embodying dual heritages. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that an individual can serve as a representation of English culture, someone who can possibly transfer the characteristics of a English gentleman onto a infant child, appears naive and impractical," he wrote.
"In my experience, having a typically English tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily achieve the outcome they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO thinks can be educated – and marketed.
"I believe the situation that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
