"Parents residing in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and qualified educator to assist their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might naturally miss the term "beginning" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most important part of this distinctive job advert, as it seeks to find a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have already been received since the anonymous family advertised their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted attention throughout the news, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, said that notwithstanding first doubt, he viewed the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
But, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert responded. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He explained the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The plan: To bring in a British tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the development at the beginning here is kind of osmotic," explained the expert.
It's via this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they want to instil.
He noted the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told him the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of passions.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "British gentleman" will lead to success and provide access.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he notes.
Yet, in spite of all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The family know this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the education sector who have these concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been educated understanding and practicing two backgrounds. He continued to learn at Cambridge University.
"The idea that a single person can function as a embodiment of UK identity, someone who can in some way transplant the qualities of a UK sophisticate onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from early childhood will does not necessarily achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity should not be forced from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, English culture is something the CEO thinks can be instructed – and commercialized.
"In my view the situation that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
