"Parents based in north London wants to find an exceptional and skilled tutor to guide their most junior child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might easily skip the phrase "beginning" as simple figurative language.
But, it could be the most significant element of this unique employment listing, as it aims to recruit a tutor for a infant.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the anonymous family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has received attention in the press, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that despite early scepticism, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he said they recognized the unusual character of their requirement, and how young their son is.
However, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family told the consultant they did not want history to recur with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the development at the beginning here is somewhat absorbed naturally," stated the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor had to be someone who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in riding, winter sports, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of lessons 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, assisting their son grow into a "British gentleman" will result in accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
However, despite all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child adopt alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The family know this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who express similar doubts.
Peter Cui, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He explained that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the time of seven, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing two backgrounds. He went on to learn at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can possibly transplant the qualities of a British gentleman onto a infant child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"From my perspective, engaging a typically English tutor from babyhood will does not instantly produce the result they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to live many of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The truth is, cultural identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, English culture is something Adam thinks can be educated – and sold.
"I believe the reality that the world regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
