"Parents residing in North London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled instructor to support their smallest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally overlook the term "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it may be the most significant part of this unusual job advert, as it attempts to recruit a tutor for a infant.
Many of applications have already been submitted since the unidentified family published their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has attracted notice in the media, with several wondering why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding early doubt, he considered the idea "visionary", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual character of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already set in".
What exactly does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the beginning here is rather osmotic," explained Adam.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they wish to instil.
Adam explained the tutor must be someone who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of interests.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
But, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", replied Adam. "The parents understand this might not succeed, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share similar doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
He explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up knowing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that an individual can serve as a representation of English culture, someone who can possibly transplant the attributes of a English gentleman to a one-year-old child, seems to me naive and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a distinctly UK tutor from early childhood will will not necessarily produce the result they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity should not be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something Adam thinks can be educated – and marketed.
"I believe the reality that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
