"Parents residing in north London seeks an remarkable and skilled tutor to assist their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it may be the most significant part of this unique position posting, as it attempts to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of responses have already been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received notice across the news, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding initial scepticism, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the unusual aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then set in".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", Adam answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they wished to avoid history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the learning at the outset here is kind of acquired indirectly," stated the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the British traits they wish to impart.
The consultant explained the tutor must be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he explained the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son become a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and provide access.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he notes.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child adopt alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Absolutely", said the CEO. "The parents know this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who express these doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, stated that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He explained that he had moved from China to the United Kingdom at the period of seven, and had been brought up understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can function as a representation of English culture, someone who can somehow transfer the qualities of a English gentleman to a one-year-old child, seems to me naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will does not automatically achieve the outcome they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, cultural identity should not be imposed from the outside; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be taught – and sold.
"I believe the reality that the international society regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
