"A family based in north London wants to find an exceptional and experienced educator to guide their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally overlook the term "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
But, it may be the crucial part of this unusual job advert, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Numerous of applications have since been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their call for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has attracted notice in the press, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that despite initial doubt, he considered the concept "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual character of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
However, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He said the elder child had adopted "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who must speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the learning at the beginning here is somewhat absorbed naturally," stated the expert.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
Adam noted the tutor had to be someone who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to him the successful candidate should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, skiing, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and open doors.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
Yet, despite all this tutelage in "Britishness", could the child adopt alleged cultural influence from the international family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", said the CEO. "They understand this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the tutoring industry who share these doubts.
Peter Cui, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert explained that he had moved from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the age of seven, and had been brought up knowing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, an individual who can somehow transfer the qualities of a English gentleman upon a infant child, appears idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a typically British tutor from infancy will not necessarily achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and however I have been privileged enough to live many of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, cultural identity cannot be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO believes can be taught – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the international society views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
