"A household residing in North London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally miss the wording "beginning" as mere figurative language.
However, it may be the crucial part of this distinctive job advert, as it attempts to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have since been submitted since the unidentified family published their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has received interest across the news, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their quest, explained that notwithstanding first doubt, he found the concept "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already become established".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent this pattern to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the development at the start here is somewhat absorbed naturally," stated the expert.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the British traits they aim to instil.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family told him the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or interest in equestrian activities, skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of passions.
Additionally though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about accomplishment and provide access.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Yes", replied Adam. "The parents know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he stated.
Impractical
Several in the education sector who share similar doubts.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
He wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the period of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The idea that a single person can serve as a representation of English culture, someone who can in some way transfer the characteristics of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, strikes me as naive and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly English tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily produce the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to live numerous of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity should not be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and sold.
"I think the reality that the international society views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
