"A family located in north London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled educator to guide their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally miss the term "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
But, it could be the most significant part of this distinctive employment listing, as it seeks to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have already been received since the unidentified family published their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the listing has attracted attention across the media, with numerous asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their search, stated that notwithstanding early skepticism, he viewed the idea "visionary", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they appreciated the unusual aspect of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
But, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already set in".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the elder child had picked up "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they did not want the same situation to recur with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the outset here is kind of acquired indirectly," explained the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to instil.
Adam explained the tutor must be someone who attended "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have understanding of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he explained the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about success and provide access.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
However, in spite of all this instruction in "English culture", might the child adopt what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with in any case?
"Certainly", answered Adam. "The parents know this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
Several in the tutoring industry who express those doubts.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
Peter noted that he had moved from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the time of seven, and had been raised experiencing and embodying both cultures. He continued to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can in some way transfer the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly British tutor from babyhood will will not automatically achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience numerous of the situations they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity should not be imposed from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
