"Parents based in north London wants to find an exceptional and skilled educator to guide their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the term "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the crucial element of this unusual position posting, as it attempts to recruit a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have already been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the advert has received attention in the news, with several asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their hunt, stated that despite early doubt, he viewed the plan "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unconventional character of their demand, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already become established".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", he replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the elder child had absorbed "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to the consultant they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a English tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they aim to impart.
He explained the tutor had to be somebody who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Furthermore though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will result in success and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
But, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "UK identity", would the child absorb so-called cultural bias from the multicultural family he resides with anyway?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who share similar reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
Peter explained that he had relocated from Asia to the UK at the time of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing two backgrounds. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can somehow impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate onto a infant child, appears optimistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"In my experience, having a typically English tutor from early childhood will does not instantly produce the result they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, Britishness is something Adam thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
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