"A household residing in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and experienced instructor to guide their youngest child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might readily skip the wording "beginning" as just figurative language.
However, it may be the crucial aspect of this unusual job advert, as it aims to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have since been submitted since the unidentified family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the advert has attracted notice across the news, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that despite early scepticism, he found the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they recognized the atypical character of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had absorbed "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family explained to Adam they did not want the same situation to recur with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the development at the outset here is somewhat acquired indirectly," explained Adam.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will adopt the UK customs they aim to impart.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be somebody who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will lead to success and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
But, despite all this guidance in "English culture", might the child adopt what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "The parents know this may not work, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who express these doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides private tutors, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the period of childhood, and had been raised knowing and living two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can function as a representation of English culture, a person who can possibly impart the characteristics of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically English tutor from infancy will not instantly produce the outcome they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, Britishness is something the expert thinks can be taught – and marketed.
"I think the reality that the world holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
