"A family residing in north London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled tutor to guide their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally skip the term "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it might be the most important part of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to find a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of submissions have now been received since the anonymous family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received attention in the news, with many wondering why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their quest, explained that despite early scepticism, he found the idea "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he noted they understood the atypical aspect of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they explained 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 precisely does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He said the elder child had picked up "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family informed him they did not want history to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To bring in a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the beginning here is kind of absorbed naturally," said the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to impart.
He noted the tutor had to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed him the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a wide range of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he comments.
But, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Absolutely", said the CEO. "The family realize this may not work, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who have these concerns.
Peter Cui, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
Peter noted that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been educated experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can somehow transplant the qualities of a English gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, employing a distinctly British tutor from infancy will does not necessarily achieve the result they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to experience many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something Adam believes can be taught – and marketed.
"I believe the fact that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
