"A household located in the northern part of London seeks an exceptional and qualified tutor to guide their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might easily miss the wording "beginning" as mere an expression.
However, it might be the crucial aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a mentor for a infant.
Many of submissions have already been sent in since the anonymous family posted their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has received notice in the press, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, explained that despite early doubt, he viewed the concept "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they appreciated the atypical character of their request, and how young their son is.
However, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had by then taken hold".
What exactly did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam answered. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the elder child had picked up "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To bring in a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to influence the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the learning at the outset here is rather absorbed naturally," stated the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the UK customs they aim to instil.
He said the tutor had to be somebody who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told him the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a range of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
But, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", might the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with regardless?
"Yes", said he. "The parents realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who have these concerns.
Peter Cui, head and founder of an educational organization, who also offer private tutors, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
He wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been raised knowing and living dual heritages. He progressed to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that an individual can function as a representation of UK identity, someone who can in some way impart the characteristics of a British gentleman to a infant child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will will not instantly produce the goal they desire.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and however I have been privileged enough to live several of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The fact is, self-identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and commercialized.
"I think the situation that the international society views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
