"Parents based in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and skilled tutor to assist their smallest child on his initial journey to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the term "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most significant aspect of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to hire a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of responses have already been sent in since the unidentified family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received interest throughout the news, with several wondering why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, explained that notwithstanding early skepticism, he found the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they recognized the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family informed the consultant they wished to avoid history to recur with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a British tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the learning at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," said the expert.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the British traits they want to instil.
Adam said the tutor had to be somebody who attended "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and provide access.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
But, despite all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child pick up what is termed cultural bias from the multicultural family he resides with in any case?
"Certainly", answered Adam. "They realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who share those reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies private tutors, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
Peter explained that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been brought up understanding and embodying dual heritages. He went on to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that a single person can act as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can in some way transplant the qualities of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically English tutor from infancy will does not necessarily produce the outcome they hope for.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to live many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, self-identity should not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be taught – and commercialized.
"In my view the fact that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
