"A household residing in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and skilled instructor to assist their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally miss the phrase "first-steps" as simple figurative language.
However, it may be the crucial part of this distinctive employment listing, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of responses have already been sent in since the unidentified family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the post has received interest in the news, with several asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that despite early scepticism, he considered the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they appreciated the unusual nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then become established".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed the consultant they did not want the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The intention: To engage a English tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the development at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's through this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they aim to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor must be someone who attended "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the selected educator should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he stated the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will lead to success and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, notwithstanding all this guidance in "Britishness", would the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "The family realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who have these concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of childhood, and had been brought up knowing and living dual heritages. He progressed to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can possibly impart the qualities of a British gentleman onto a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"Based on my background, having a quintessentially English tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily achieve the result they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to live several of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, cultural identity should not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, English culture is something Adam thinks can be educated – and commercialized.
"In my view the fact that the international society regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
