"A family located in the northern part of London seeks an exceptional and qualified tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
But, it could be the crucial aspect of this unique position posting, as it aims to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of responses have since been submitted since the anonymous family posted their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has received interest across the media, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, explained that notwithstanding initial doubt, he considered the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the atypical nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
But, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
What exactly does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a English tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they want to instil.
The consultant said the tutor must be someone who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed him the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Additionally though, he stated the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a range of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the international family he is raised by regardless?
"Certainly", said the CEO. "They realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who have similar reservations.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
Peter wrote that he had emigrated from China to the United Kingdom at the period of seven, and had been brought up understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can serve as a representation of English culture, a person who can possibly transplant the characteristics of a British gentleman to a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unfeasible," he stated.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly British tutor from babyhood will will not instantly produce the result they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, personal identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the expert believes can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I believe the reality that the international society views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
