"A family located in the northern part of London seeks an extraordinary and skilled educator to assist their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might naturally skip the wording "first-steps" as just an expression.
However, it may be the most significant part of this unique position posting, as it seeks to find a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained interest across the press, with numerous questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, explained that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he considered the concept "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical nature of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already become established".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", Adam responded. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the elder child had absorbed "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they wished to avoid history to recur with their infant.
The strategy: To bring in a English tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the learning at the start here is kind of osmotic," said the CEO.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
He said the tutor had to be an individual who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family desired the tutor to register the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
However, despite all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", said Adam. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the education sector who share these reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer personal educators, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that a single person can function as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can somehow transfer the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a typically English tutor from early childhood will will not automatically create the result they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to enjoy several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Of course, UK identity is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and sold.
"I think the situation that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
