"Parents based in North London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced educator to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily overlook the wording "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most important element of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have since been received since the unnamed family published their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has received interest across the press, with numerous wondering why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their search, stated that notwithstanding early scepticism, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they appreciated the unusual nature of their demand, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already become established".
But what does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam answered. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to recur with their infant.
The intention: To engage a British tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the learning at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," explained the CEO.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will adopt the UK customs they want to cultivate.
The consultant noted the tutor needed to be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and open doors.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he notes.
Yet, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child absorb what is termed cultural leaning from the multicultural family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", answered the CEO. "The parents realize this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the private teaching field who express those reservations.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing both cultures. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can in some way transfer the qualities of a English gentleman to a infant child, appears naive and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a typically British tutor from infancy will not instantly create the outcome they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity should not be dictated from the outside; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something Adam hopes can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I think the reality that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
