"Parents located in North London seeks an extraordinary and skilled educator to guide their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might naturally overlook the wording "initial stages" as just figurative language.
However, it could be the most significant part of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have already been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has attracted attention in the press, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their search, said that despite initial scepticism, he considered the plan "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he mentioned they recognized the unconventional nature of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already taken hold".
What exactly did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had absorbed "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told him they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their new baby.
The intention: To hire a British tutor, who must speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the outset here is rather absorbed naturally," said Adam.
It's through this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they want to impart.
Adam said the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in riding, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of hobbies.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will result in success and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
But, despite all this guidance in "Britishness", would the child absorb so-called cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Certainly", said the CEO. "The family understand this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who have similar concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who also offer private tutors, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the period of childhood, and had been educated understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that an individual can act as a embodiment of UK identity, someone who can somehow transfer the attributes of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a typically UK tutor from early childhood will does not automatically produce the result they desire.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, personal identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be educated – and marketed.
"In my view the fact that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
