"A family based in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might easily skip the term "initial stages" as simple an expression.
However, it might be the most significant part of this distinctive position posting, as it attempts to find a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have since been sent in since the anonymous family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received interest throughout the news, with numerous questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their quest, stated that in spite of early doubt, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the unconventional nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
But, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already set in".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is somewhat acquired indirectly," said Adam.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will acquire the English characteristics they wish to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to him the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in riding, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a range of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son develop into a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and provide access.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
However, despite all this guidance in "English culture", might the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Certainly", answered he. "They realize this may not work, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and let's go as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the education sector who share these reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the UK at the time of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and living dual heritages. He continued to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that one individual can act as a representation of UK identity, an individual who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a British gentleman to a 12-month-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly English tutor from babyhood will does not automatically create the result they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and however I have been fortunate enough to enjoy several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, self-identity cannot be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the CEO thinks can be instructed – and sold.
"I think the reality that the global community holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
