"A household residing in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled tutor to guide their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might readily miss the wording "first-steps" as mere an expression.
Yet, it might be the most important part of this unusual position posting, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have since been received since the anonymous family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received interest throughout the media, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, said that in spite of early skepticism, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he said they understood the unconventional nature of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
But, 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 point "cultural influence had already taken hold".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family informed him they wished to avoid history to happen again with their new baby.
The plan: To bring in a English tutor, who must speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the development at the outset here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained the CEO.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the English characteristics they wish to instil.
He said the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a wide range of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "English culture", would the child pick up what is termed cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Absolutely", answered Adam. "The family understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who have similar concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the period of 7 years old, and had been raised experiencing and living two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can function as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can somehow transplant the attributes of a British gentleman to a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and impractical," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a quintessentially UK tutor from infancy will not necessarily achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to live many of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be instructed – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating