"A family located in North London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled instructor to support their smallest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might naturally skip the wording "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most important aspect of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to hire a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been sent in since the anonymous family published their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted interest in the media, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that despite first doubt, he found the idea "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the elder child had adopted "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family told him they did not want this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the development at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," stated Adam.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will adopt the UK customs they wish to instil.
He said the tutor had to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have understanding of or interest in riding, winter sports, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will bring about success and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
But, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", could the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by regardless?
"Yes", said he. "The parents know this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the private teaching field who express similar reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who provides personal educators, commented that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been raised experiencing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that one individual can act as a representation of UK identity, someone who can in some way transfer the attributes of a English gentleman onto a infant child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will will not necessarily produce the goal they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, self-identity cannot be forced from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, Britishness is something the expert hopes can be educated – and marketed.
"I believe the fact that the world regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
