"A household based in North London wants to find an remarkable and skilled educator to assist their most junior child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it could be the crucial part of this unique job advert, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of applications have now been submitted since the anonymous family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained interest in the press, with numerous asking why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, chief executive of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of initial doubt, he found the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they recognized the unusual character of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had by then taken hold".
What exactly does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", he replied. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family explained to him they did not want history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The plan: To hire a UK tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the learning at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," explained Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the English characteristics they want to impart.
The consultant noted the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, despite all this guidance in "English culture", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", replied he. "They realize this could fail, but they've just taken the view of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who share these doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies private tutors, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He wrote that he had emigrated from China to the United Kingdom at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and living two backgrounds. He went on to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that an individual can function as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can possibly impart the qualities of a British gentleman to a 12-month-old child, strikes me as idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, having a typically UK tutor from early childhood will not instantly create the result they want.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and however I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the CEO believes can be taught – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the world views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
