"A family located in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and qualified educator to assist their smallest child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might easily overlook the term "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
However, it may be the crucial part of this unique position posting, as it seeks to find a mentor for a infant.
Hundreds of applications have now been submitted since the anonymous family published their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the post has gained interest throughout the news, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that despite early doubt, he considered the plan "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual nature of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the start here is rather osmotic," stated the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will acquire the UK customs they want to impart.
The consultant noted the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and provide access.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he notes.
However, despite all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child pick up what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with in any case?
"Yes", said Adam. "The family understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who express similar reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the development of embracing two identities, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of childhood, and had been raised knowing and living both cultures. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that a single person can serve as a living vessel of UK identity, someone who can possibly transfer the attributes of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he wrote.
"In my experience, having a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will not necessarily produce the result they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience many of the situations they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, personal identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the global community regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
