"A household based in North London wants to find an remarkable and skilled educator to support their smallest child on his first steps to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily skip the term "initial stages" as simple an expression.
But, it might be the most important element of this unique job advert, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have already been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has received interest throughout the media, with several questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that notwithstanding first doubt, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unusual aspect of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then become established".
But what does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he answered. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family informed Adam they did not want history to happen again with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the outset here is kind of acquired indirectly," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to impart.
He said the tutor had to be someone who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed the expert the chosen tutor should preferably also have understanding of or passion in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of passions.
Furthermore though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will result in success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
However, despite all this instruction in "English culture", would the child pick up what is termed cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", answered Adam. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the education sector who share these concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, wrote that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
Peter wrote that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been brought up understanding and practicing dual heritages. He went on to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can in some way impart the characteristics of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, employing a typically UK tutor from infancy will will not necessarily create the goal they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience several of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be imposed from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert believes can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I believe the fact that the global community regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
