"Parents located in north London is looking for an remarkable and experienced tutor to guide their smallest child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as simple an expression.
Yet, it could be the most important aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have since been submitted since the unidentified family published their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has attracted notice throughout the news, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their hunt, said that despite initial doubt, he viewed the idea "visionary", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical nature of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the older sibling had picked up "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family informed the consultant they did not want history to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To hire a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the beginning here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the UK customs they want to cultivate.
He said the tutor had to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about success and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he adds.
But, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", might the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "They realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who share those doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
He wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and living both cultures. He continued to study at Cambridge University.
"The idea that a single person can act as a representation of English culture, someone who can in some way transfer the qualities of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially English tutor from babyhood will does not automatically achieve the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience many of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, self-identity can not be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and sold.
"In my view the situation that the global community regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
