"Parents residing in North London seeks an exceptional and experienced instructor to support their smallest child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily miss the phrase "beginning" as simple an expression.
But, it might be the crucial part of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of applications have already been received since the anonymous family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the listing has gained notice across the media, with several asking why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, head and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that despite first scepticism, he found the plan "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the atypical aspect of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already taken hold".
What exactly did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the elder child had adopted "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to him they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their new baby.
The plan: To bring in a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," explained the expert.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will acquire the British traits they aim to instil.
He noted the tutor must be somebody who studied at "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or interest in equestrian activities, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he adds.
But, in spite of all this tutelage in "Britishness", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", said he. "They know this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who express these doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the process of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated experiencing and embodying dual heritages. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that an individual can serve as a representation of English culture, someone who can somehow transplant the characteristics of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"In my experience, having a typically UK tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily produce the result they want.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and yet I have been privileged enough to live numerous of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be taught – and sold.
"I believe the reality that the world regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
