"A household located in north London is looking for an exceptional and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally overlook the wording "first-steps" as just figurative language.
Yet, it might be the most significant element of this unusual position posting, as it aims to recruit a tutor for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have since been received since the unnamed family published their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted interest throughout the press, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, explained that in spite of early doubt, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he said they appreciated the atypical aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to him they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their new baby.
The intention: To hire a English tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the learning at the start here is somewhat osmotic," stated Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they want to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be someone who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to him the selected educator should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in riding, alpine skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a wide range of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", would the child absorb what is termed cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by regardless?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The family know this could fail, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the education sector who have those doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He explained that he had relocated from China to the Britain at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and living both cultures. He continued to learn at Cambridge University.
"The idea that a single person can act as a living vessel of English culture, a person who can somehow transplant the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a 12-month-old child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically English tutor from babyhood will will not automatically achieve the goal they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and however I have been privileged enough to live several of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the expert hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
"I believe the fact that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
