"Parents based in the northern part of London is looking for an exceptional and skilled tutor to assist their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might easily miss the term "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it may be the most important element of this unique position posting, as it attempts to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have since been submitted since the anonymous family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has attracted interest throughout the news, with numerous wondering why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their quest, explained that in spite of initial scepticism, he found the idea "visionary", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he said they recognized the unusual nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then set in".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the elder child had picked up "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family told him they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their younger child.
The plan: To hire a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the education at the start here is kind of osmotic," said Adam.
It's through this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to impart.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son become a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
Yet, despite all this instruction in "English culture", could the child absorb what is termed cultural bias from the globally influenced family he lives with in any case?
"Certainly", answered he. "The parents know this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who share those reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
Peter noted that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the period of seven, and had been brought up understanding and practicing dual heritages. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that an individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can in some way transfer the characteristics of a British gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, appears optimistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a quintessentially UK tutor from babyhood will not instantly produce the goal they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, UK identity is something the expert believes can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I think the fact that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
