"Parents located in North London wants to find an exceptional and qualified instructor to guide their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally miss the wording "first-steps" as just an expression.
Yet, it may be the crucial aspect of this unusual job advert, as it attempts to recruit a mentor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of responses have now been sent in since the unidentified family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the post has received attention throughout the media, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that despite first skepticism, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unconventional character of their requirement, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already become established".
What precisely did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family informed Adam they did not want the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the education at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they aim to impart.
Adam said the tutor had to be somebody who went to "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in equestrian activities, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he notes.
However, despite all this guidance in "English culture", would the child adopt what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", said Adam. "They know this could fail, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who express those doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
Peter wrote that he had moved from China to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and living both cultures. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can in some way transfer the attributes of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he stated.
"From my perspective, having a typically British tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily produce the goal they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the situations they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, cultural identity should not be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO thinks can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I believe the reality that the global community views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
