"A family based in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled educator to assist their most junior child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might easily skip the wording "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most important element of this distinctive job advert, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of responses have since been sent in since the anonymous family posted their search for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the post has gained notice throughout the media, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their quest, explained that in spite of early skepticism, he considered the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he said they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, 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 stage "cultural influence had already taken hold".
What exactly does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert answered. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the elder child had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their infant.
The plan: To bring in a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the development at the start here is kind of absorbed naturally," said Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the UK customs they wish to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator must be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed him the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or interest in riding, skiing, creative fields and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of passions.
More than that though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son become a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and provide access.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he notes.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "English culture", would the child adopt so-called cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Absolutely", said he. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who express these doubts.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides private tutors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
Peter explained that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been raised understanding and living both cultures. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that a single person can serve as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can in some way transplant the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, appears optimistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from early childhood will not automatically produce the result they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience several of the situations they hope for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, personal identity cannot be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be instructed – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the international society regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
