"Parents residing in the northern part of London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled educator to guide their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might readily miss the term "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most significant aspect of this unique job advert, as it seeks to hire a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have since been sent in since the unidentified family posted their call for the highly paid tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received notice across the press, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that in spite of initial doubt, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the atypical aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
But, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had by then taken hold".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told Adam they wished to avoid the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To hire a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the learning at the outset here is somewhat absorbed naturally," explained Adam.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they want to cultivate.
Adam noted the tutor had to be someone who studied at "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, skiing, the arts and music so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in success and provide access.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he adds.
But, despite all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child absorb so-called cultural bias from the international family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", replied he. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the view of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who share similar reservations.
Peter Cui, head and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been raised experiencing and living both cultures. He went on to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that a single person can serve as a representation of UK identity, a person who can somehow transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically UK tutor from infancy will not necessarily achieve the result they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the expert hopes can be educated – and marketed.
"I think the fact that the global community holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
