"Parents located in the northern part of London seeks an exceptional and experienced tutor to guide their most junior child on his initial journey to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily miss the wording "beginning" as mere an expression.
However, it could be the most important aspect of this unique job advert, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have now been sent in since the unidentified family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the advert has received attention throughout the news, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their quest, said that notwithstanding initial scepticism, he viewed the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the atypical aspect of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had already set in".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to the consultant they did not want the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The intention: To engage a British tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the education at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," explained the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will adopt the British traits they aim to cultivate.
He explained the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told him the chosen tutor should preferably also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in riding, winter sports, the arts and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Additionally though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son become a "British gentleman" will lead to accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child absorb so-called cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Absolutely", answered he. "The parents know this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who have these reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the period of seven, and had been raised knowing and living two backgrounds. He went on to learn at Cambridge University.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a representation of English culture, an individual who can possibly transplant the qualities of a English gentleman onto a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a typically UK tutor from infancy will does not automatically produce the goal they want.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to experience several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be instructed – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
