"A household based in north London wants to find an extraordinary and qualified educator to guide their most junior child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily skip the wording "beginning" as mere figurative language.
But, it could be the most significant element of this distinctive position posting, as it attempts to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been sent in since the unnamed family advertised their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has attracted attention throughout the media, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that despite first doubt, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already set in".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to influence the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the beginning here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the UK customs they want to impart.
Adam explained the tutor had to be someone who studied at "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in riding, winter sports, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he adds.
However, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child pick up what is termed cultural leaning from the international family he resides with regardless?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who share similar doubts.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert wrote that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been raised knowing and embodying both cultures. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can serve as a representation of Britishness, a person who can somehow transfer the characteristics of a British gentleman to a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically English tutor from infancy will not instantly create the goal they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been lucky enough to live numerous of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, self-identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, Britishness is something the expert hopes can be taught – and commercialized.
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