"A household based in North London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced tutor to assist their most junior child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally skip the term "initial stages" as mere an expression.
Yet, it could be the crucial element of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of submissions have since been sent in since the anonymous family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has gained attention across the news, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that despite initial doubt, he considered the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he noted they understood the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had by then become established".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent this pattern to recur with their infant.
The intention: To hire a English tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the beginning here is kind of osmotic," said the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they want to cultivate.
He said the tutor had to be someone who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to him the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to inspire the child in a wide range of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a range of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to accomplishment and provide access.
"Considering 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 pick up alleged cultural bias from the globally influenced family he lives with regardless?
"Certainly", answered the CEO. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the education sector who have these reservations.
Peter Cui, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert noted that he had moved from Asia to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been educated knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The notion that a single person can function as a embodiment of UK identity, a person who can in some way transplant the attributes of a English gentleman to a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"Based on my background, having a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will will not necessarily create the result they want.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity cannot be imposed from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert believes can be taught – and commercialized.
"I believe the fact that the global community views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
