"A family based in north London is looking for an extraordinary and experienced educator to guide their smallest child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily skip the phrase "beginning" as simple a turn of phrase.
But, it might be the most important element of this unusual job advert, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of applications have now been received since the unnamed family advertised their call for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has received interest throughout the press, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their search, said that despite initial skepticism, he viewed the idea "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the unusual aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", he replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had picked up "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told him they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who must speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they want to impart.
He said the tutor had to be an individual who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son become a "UK sophisticate" will lead to accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he notes.
But, notwithstanding all this instruction in "Britishness", might the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "The parents know this may not work, but they've just taken the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as early as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who have similar concerns.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been raised knowing and living both cultures. He progressed to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a representation of English culture, someone who can in some way impart the attributes of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, appears naive and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially UK tutor from early childhood will does not instantly achieve the goal they desire.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to enjoy several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and marketed.
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