"Parents residing in north London wants to find an exceptional and experienced tutor to support their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily miss the wording "beginning" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it may be the crucial aspect of this unique job advert, as it aims to recruit a tutor for a infant.
Numerous of submissions have now been sent in since the anonymous family advertised their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has attracted interest throughout the press, with several questioning why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, chief executive of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their search, said that in spite of early scepticism, he viewed the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unconventional nature of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then set in".
What precisely did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he responded. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He said the elder child had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed the consultant they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the education at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," said Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to impart.
He explained the tutor had to be somebody who studied at "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he stated the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son become a "British gentleman" will lead to success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, despite all this instruction in "Britishness", could the child pick up what is termed cultural influence from the international family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied he. "They understand this could fail, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he explained.
Impractical
There are some in the education sector who express these doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies private tutors, commented that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the age of seven, and had been raised knowing and living both cultures. He progressed to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that a single person can serve as a embodiment of English culture, an individual who can in some way transfer the qualities of a British gentleman onto a infant child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, employing a distinctly English tutor from early childhood will not instantly produce the goal they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the expert hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the world holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
