"Parents located in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and skilled tutor to guide their smallest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally miss the wording "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the most significant part of this unique employment listing, as it aims to hire a mentor for a infant.
Many of submissions have already been sent in since the anonymous family advertised their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted interest across the media, with numerous asking why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that despite first doubt, he found the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they appreciated the unusual character of their request, 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 older child was five, and by that point "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
But what did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid history to recur with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," explained the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they aim to impart.
Adam explained the tutor must be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will lead to success and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
However, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the international family he is raised by regardless?
"Yes", answered he. "The family understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who have those reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, stated that "the process of embracing two identities, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the period of seven, and had been educated experiencing and living dual heritages. He went on to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that a single person can act as a representation of Britishness, a person who can in some way impart the qualities of a British gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me optimistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly English tutor from babyhood will does not automatically produce the outcome they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live many of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity should not be dictated from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, Britishness is something the expert thinks can be instructed – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
