"Parents located in North London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled instructor to support their smallest child on his early path to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily miss the term "initial stages" as mere an expression.
However, it may be the most significant aspect of this unique job advert, as it seeks to recruit a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of applications have since been submitted since the anonymous family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received attention across the news, with numerous wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, stated that notwithstanding early skepticism, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already become established".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam responded. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the elder child had picked up "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To bring in a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the beginning here is rather osmotic," stated the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the British traits they want to instil.
He said the tutor needed to be someone who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and music so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in success and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child adopt alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he resides with anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "They understand this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share those reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
He noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been educated understanding and living two backgrounds. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that one individual can serve as a embodiment of English culture, an individual who can possibly transplant the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially UK tutor from infancy will does not automatically achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to live numerous of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, self-identity can not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, English culture is something the expert thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
"I believe the reality that the global community holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
