"Parents based in the northern part of London seeks an remarkable and experienced educator to assist their smallest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily miss the wording "first-steps" as just an expression.
Yet, it might be the most important aspect of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the unidentified family published their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted interest across the media, with numerous asking why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their search, said that in spite of initial doubt, he found the idea "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he noted they understood the unconventional aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already set in".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "How you eat, how you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed the consultant they wished to avoid history to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the education at the outset here is somewhat acquired indirectly," said the expert.
It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will acquire the British traits they wish to instil.
The consultant noted the tutor needed to be someone who attended "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 carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family told him the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and provide access.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he comments.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", might the child pick up what is termed cultural bias from the international family he lives with regardless?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "They realize this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the tutoring industry who express similar reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had relocated from Asia to the UK at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised understanding and living dual heritages. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The notion that one individual can function as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can somehow transplant the characteristics of a English gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, appears idealistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a typically English tutor from infancy will not instantly produce the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity cannot be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something the expert believes can be educated – and sold.
"I think the fact that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
