"Parents based in North London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled educator to assist their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the wording "first-steps" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the most important part of this distinctive job advert, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of responses have since been received since the unnamed family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the post has received attention across the media, with many questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, stated that notwithstanding early scepticism, he found the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they understood the atypical nature of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had by then become established".
What precisely did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam replied. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the elder child had picked up "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to him they wished to avoid history to recur with their new baby.
The intention: To hire a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the development at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," stated the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
Adam explained the tutor had to be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
Additionally though, he stated the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and open doors.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he notes.
However, despite all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child absorb what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The parents understand this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the tutoring industry who express these doubts.
An education leader, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies private tutors, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
Peter explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been educated knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can act as a representation of UK identity, a person who can somehow transplant the qualities of a English gentleman upon a infant child, seems to me naive and impractical," he stated.
"From my perspective, engaging a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily produce the outcome they want.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live several of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the CEO believes can be instructed – and marketed.
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