"Parents residing in North London is looking for an exceptional and experienced tutor to assist their youngest child on his early path to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might easily miss the term "initial stages" as simple an expression.
But, it might be the most important element of this unusual job advert, as it attempts to hire a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have now been sent in since the anonymous family published their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted interest across the news, with many questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their quest, said that in spite of first doubt, he found the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he said they recognized the atypical aspect of their request, and how early in age their son is.
However, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already become established".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert responded. "How you eat, how you speak".
He stated the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family informed him they wished to avoid this pattern to recur with their younger child.
The strategy: To bring in a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the development at the outset here is kind of osmotic," explained the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to instil.
Adam said the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of passions.
Furthermore though, he stated the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool 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 accomplishment and provide access.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he notes.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", might the child adopt alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he lives with in any case?
"Certainly", answered he. "They realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the private teaching field who have those reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who supplies individual instructors, wrote that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
He explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, an individual who can possibly impart the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, having a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will will not automatically achieve the outcome they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity should not be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, Britishness is something Adam hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
