"A household based in North London is looking for an extraordinary and qualified tutor to support their youngest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally skip the wording "beginning" as mere figurative language.
But, it might be the crucial element of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to find a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have now been submitted since the unidentified family posted their call for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has received notice across the press, with numerous asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of first doubt, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they recognized the atypical aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told him they did not want history to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the learning at the outset here is rather acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they wish to impart.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be somebody who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
Furthermore though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and open doors.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he adds.
But, despite all this instruction in "English culture", could the child absorb so-called cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Certainly", said the CEO. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as early as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he said.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who express those reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been educated knowing and living dual heritages. He progressed to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can somehow impart the attributes of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"From my perspective, employing a typically English tutor from early childhood will will not instantly create the outcome they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and sold.
"I think the reality that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
