"Parents residing in the northern part of London seeks an exceptional and experienced educator to assist their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might naturally miss the wording "beginning" as just an expression.
But, it may be the crucial aspect of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have since been sent in since the unidentified family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has received attention throughout the press, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding initial doubt, he found the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he noted they understood the atypical aspect of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the elder child had absorbed "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family informed Adam they wished to avoid history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the development at the outset here is rather absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they want to instil.
He noted the tutor must be someone who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and musical activities so as to influence the child in a wide range of hobbies.
Additionally though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and open doors.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this guidance in "Britishness", would the child adopt alleged cultural bias from the international family he lives with regardless?
"Yes", answered he. "They understand this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as early as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who express those doubts.
Peter Cui, head and founder of an educational organization, who supplies personal educators, commented that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
Peter explained that he had moved from China to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to study at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can act as a representation of UK identity, an individual who can somehow transplant the characteristics of a English gentleman onto a infant child, seems to me idealistic and impractical," he stated.
"In my experience, having a quintessentially British tutor from early childhood will does not instantly produce the outcome they hope for.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to enjoy many of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something Adam believes can be taught – and commercialized.
"I think the reality that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
