"A household based in the northern part of London seeks an exceptional and qualified tutor to guide their youngest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might readily overlook the wording "beginning" as simple an expression.
But, it may be the most significant part of this unique job advert, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a infant.
Numerous of submissions have since been received since the unidentified family advertised their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received interest in the media, with numerous questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their quest, said that despite early doubt, he viewed the concept "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they recognized the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how young their son is.
However, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already set in".
But what does the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told Adam they wished to avoid the same situation to recur with their infant.
The intention: To hire a UK tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the learning at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis 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 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 appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told the expert the chosen tutor should preferably also have understanding of or interest in horse riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he adds.
But, in spite of all this instruction in "Britishness", could the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Absolutely", replied he. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who share these doubts.
Peter Cui, chief executive of Blue Education, who supplies private tutors, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the period of childhood, and had been raised knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The notion that one individual can act as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can possibly transplant the attributes of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, strikes me as optimistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily create the goal they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience many of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be educated – and marketed.
"In my view the fact that the world holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
