"A family based in North London wants to find an exceptional and skilled tutor to support their most junior child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might easily overlook the wording "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
However, it could be the most significant part of this distinctive position posting, as it attempts to hire a mentor for a infant.
Hundreds of responses have since been received since the unidentified family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted interest across the press, with many asking why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that despite initial doubt, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they recognized the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
But, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then become established".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the older sibling had adopted "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to Adam they did not want history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," said the CEO.
It's via this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the UK customs they want to cultivate.
Adam said the tutor must be somebody who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed him the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, skiing, creative fields and music so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a range of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
Yet, despite all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the international family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", said the CEO. "The family know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who share these doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies private tutors, wrote that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had moved from China to the UK at the time of seven, and had been brought up experiencing and living dual heritages. He continued to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can act as a embodiment of UK identity, a person who can somehow transplant the attributes of a UK sophisticate upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and impractical," he stated.
"From my perspective, having a typically UK tutor from infancy will does not instantly achieve the outcome they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live many of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity should not be imposed from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, UK identity is something Adam believes can be instructed – and sold.
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