"A family based in North London wants to find an extraordinary and qualified educator to support their smallest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily overlook the wording "beginning" as simple a turn of phrase.
But, it could be the crucial element of this distinctive employment listing, as it attempts to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of submissions have since been submitted since the anonymous family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted interest across the news, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their search, explained that despite first doubt, he viewed the idea "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they appreciated the atypical character of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then set in".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to recur with their infant.
The intention: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the development at the outset here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the British traits they want to impart.
Adam noted the tutor must be somebody who went to "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Money No Object
The family told him the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, creative fields and music so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son become a "English gentleman" will bring about achievement and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
But, in spite of all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child pick up so-called cultural leaning from the international family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", said he. "They understand this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the education sector who have similar doubts.
Peter Cui, head and founder of an educational organization, who provides individual instructors, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
Peter wrote that he had moved from Asia to the United Kingdom at the time of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a representation of UK identity, an individual who can somehow impart the characteristics of a UK sophisticate onto a 12-month-old child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from early childhood will not automatically achieve the result they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to experience numerous of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be educated – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the international society regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
