"Parents based in North London wants to find an exceptional and qualified tutor to support their smallest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally overlook the term "initial stages" as just figurative language.
Yet, it may be the most important part of this unique employment listing, as it aims to hire a tutor for a infant.
Hundreds of responses have now been submitted since the anonymous family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has gained attention in the news, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that despite initial scepticism, he found the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the atypical character of their demand, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already taken hold".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the development at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," said the expert.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they wish to impart.
He said the tutor needed to be an individual who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have knowledge of or interest in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range 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 perspective, guiding their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
However, in spite of all this instruction in "UK identity", might the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who share similar doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
Peter noted that he had relocated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been raised experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to study at Cambridge University.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, an individual who can somehow transplant the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he stated.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will will not necessarily produce the result they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be imposed from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, Britishness is something the expert believes can be instructed – and marketed.
"I believe the reality that the global community regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
