"A family based in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and qualified instructor to guide their youngest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might readily overlook the term "initial stages" as just figurative language.
Yet, it might be the crucial part of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of responses have now been received since the anonymous family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted notice across the news, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, explained that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he viewed the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already set in".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the elder child had picked up "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to him they hoped to prevent history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the beginning here is rather osmotic," said the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they want to cultivate.
He explained the tutor must be someone who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to him the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in equestrian activities, skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a wide range of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family desired the tutor to register the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he notes.
Yet, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child adopt so-called cultural bias from the globally influenced family he lives with regardless?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "The family know this may not work, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
Several in the tutoring industry who share these doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who also offer private tutors, wrote that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had moved from China to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been raised knowing and living two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that an individual can function as a representation of Britishness, a person who can somehow transplant the attributes of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a typically British tutor from infancy will not automatically achieve the outcome they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, cultural identity should not be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
"I think the reality that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
