"A family based in North London wants to find an exceptional and qualified tutor to support their most junior child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily skip the wording "beginning" as just an expression.
But, it could be the most important part of this distinctive job advert, as it aims to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have now been received since the unidentified family advertised their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the post has received interest in the news, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their search, stated that notwithstanding initial doubt, he viewed the concept "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the unconventional character of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already become established".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the elder child had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid history to repeat itself with their infant.
The strategy: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is rather acquired indirectly," said the expert.
It's via this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they want to cultivate.
Adam noted the tutor needed to be somebody who studied at "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will result in accomplishment and open doors.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
But, in spite of all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", answered he. "They realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the private teaching field who share those reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides private tutors, commented that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
He explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that one individual can function as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can somehow impart the attributes of a English gentleman to a one-year-old child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will will not necessarily create the outcome they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, cultural identity cannot be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, Britishness is something the expert believes can be taught – and sold.
"I think the situation that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
