"Parents based in North London is looking for an extraordinary and experienced tutor to support their smallest child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might naturally skip the term "beginning" as simple figurative language.
However, it could be the most important aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it attempts to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have since been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has gained notice throughout the media, with many questioning why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, head and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their quest, explained that notwithstanding first scepticism, he found the plan "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the atypical aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had by then set in".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", Adam replied. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had adopted "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family told him they hoped to prevent the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the education at the outset here is rather absorbed naturally," said the expert.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they want to instil.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of passions.
Additionally though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a range of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and provide access.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
But, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child absorb what is termed cultural influence from the international family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "The family realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the education sector who have these doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had relocated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and practicing both cultures. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can possibly impart the qualities of a British gentleman upon a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a distinctly English tutor from babyhood will will not instantly achieve the goal they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the CEO believes can be educated – and commercialized.
"I think the fact that the international society regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
