"Parents based in north London wants to find an remarkable and qualified educator to assist their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might naturally miss the term "beginning" as simple figurative language.
However, it might be the most important aspect of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have already been sent in since the anonymous family published their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received notice across the press, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, said that notwithstanding early scepticism, he found the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he mentioned they recognized the unusual character of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already set in".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", he answered. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the elder child had absorbed "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told him they did not want this pattern to happen again with their infant.
The intention: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the learning at the start here is kind of osmotic," said the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they want to instil.
Adam noted the tutor had to be someone who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator must be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.
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 instrumental training so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will result in accomplishment and create opportunities.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he notes.
Yet, in spite of all this tutelage in "English culture", could the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", answered he. "They realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the private teaching field who share similar reservations.
An education leader, head and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He noted that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been raised experiencing and living both cultures. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that one individual can function as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can somehow impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate onto a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will does not instantly produce the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, personal identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Of course, UK identity is something Adam believes can be educated – and sold.
"I think the reality that the global community regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
