"A household located in North London seeks an extraordinary and skilled instructor to guide their most junior child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily miss the phrase "beginning" as mere an expression.
Yet, it could be the most significant part of this unusual job advert, as it attempts to hire a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of responses have already been submitted since the unnamed family advertised their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted attention throughout the news, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their quest, stated that despite early scepticism, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the unconventional nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already set in".
What exactly did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam replied. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told him they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The intention: To hire a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the start here is somewhat osmotic," stated the expert.
It's through this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will acquire the UK customs they wish to impart.
The consultant said the tutor must be someone who attended "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Additionally though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a range of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son develop into a "English gentleman" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he adds.
However, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child absorb so-called cultural bias from the international family he lives with regardless?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "The parents know this could fail, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'we should try and let's go as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he said.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who have these doubts.
An education leader, chief executive of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, commented that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
He noted that he had relocated from China to the Britain at the time of seven, and had been raised knowing and practicing dual heritages. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can function as a embodiment of UK identity, a person who can in some way impart the attributes of a British gentleman upon a infant child, appears naive and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly UK tutor from early childhood will not automatically produce the goal they want.
"I never had 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, self-identity should not be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, Britishness is something Adam thinks can be instructed – and sold.
"I think the reality that the global community holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
