"A household located in North London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this advertisement, you might naturally overlook the term "initial stages" as just figurative language.
Yet, it may be the most significant element of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to find a teacher for a infant.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their call for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has gained interest in the media, with numerous questioning why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their quest, stated that despite first scepticism, he viewed the concept "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unusual nature of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family informed Adam they hoped to prevent history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the beginning here is somewhat absorbed naturally," said the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to instil.
Adam said the tutor needed to be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the selected educator should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of passions.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a range of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
Yet, notwithstanding all this guidance in "Britishness", could the child adopt what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Certainly", replied he. "They understand this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who share those concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer personal educators, wrote that "the journey of embracing two identities, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been educated experiencing and practicing both cultures. He continued to learn at Cambridge University.
"The idea that an individual can function as a living vessel of Britishness, an individual who can possibly impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a one-year-old child, appears naive and unrealistic," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a distinctly British tutor from infancy will will not necessarily create the goal they want.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be imposed from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, UK identity is something Adam hopes can be taught – and commercialized.
"I think the situation that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
