"Parents residing in the northern part of London is looking for an exceptional and qualified tutor to assist their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might readily overlook the term "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
But, it may be the crucial part of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of responses have already been sent in since the unidentified family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted attention throughout the news, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that notwithstanding initial doubt, he found the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he mentioned they appreciated the atypical aspect of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural bias had by then set in".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert answered. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the elder child had picked up "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family informed the consultant they hoped to prevent this pattern to repeat itself with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the development at the outset here is kind of acquired indirectly," said the expert.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to impart.
Adam explained the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed him the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
More than that though, he explained the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son develop into a "English gentleman" will lead to accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he adds.
However, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he lives with anyway?
"Absolutely", replied the CEO. "The family understand this could fail, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.
Impractical
Several in the education sector who express these concerns.
Peter Cui, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies private tutors, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the time of seven, and had been educated understanding and living two backgrounds. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that an individual can function as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can somehow impart the attributes of a UK sophisticate onto a infant child, seems to me idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will will not automatically achieve the goal they want.
"I did not have such a figure, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to enjoy many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity should not be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something the expert believes can be educated – and marketed.
"In my view the fact that the world views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
