"A family based in north London seeks an extraordinary and skilled educator to guide their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might naturally overlook the phrase "beginning" as mere figurative language.
But, it may be the crucial element of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to find a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of responses have now been received since the anonymous family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the listing has attracted notice throughout the press, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their search, said that despite early scepticism, he viewed the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they understood the unconventional character of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had by then set in".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family told him they did not want this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the education at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," explained Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the English characteristics they want to instil.
The consultant said the tutor had to be someone who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the chosen tutor should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in equestrian activities, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
Additionally though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will lead to success and create opportunities.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
However, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", could the child pick up what is termed cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", answered Adam. "They understand this may not work, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the tutoring industry who have those concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He explained that he had relocated from Asia to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been raised experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can in some way transfer the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, strikes me as optimistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a typically English tutor from infancy will not instantly achieve the result they desire.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, personal identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, UK identity is something Adam believes can be educated – and marketed.
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