"A family residing in the northern part of London seeks an remarkable and experienced tutor to guide their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally miss the term "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
Yet, it could be the crucial part of this distinctive employment listing, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have already been submitted since the unnamed family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the post has received attention across the press, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their search, said that notwithstanding early skepticism, he found the idea "visionary", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then set in".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed Adam they did not want this pattern to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," stated the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be someone who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or interest in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Additionally though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he adds.
But, despite all this instruction in "UK identity", might the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", said he. "They realize this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who express similar concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, wrote that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The concept that a single person can serve as a representation of UK identity, a person who can in some way impart the qualities of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, seems to me naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly English tutor from infancy will not instantly create the goal they hope for.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to live many of the situations they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, self-identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, Britishness is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
