"A household residing in North London wants to find an exceptional and skilled educator to support their smallest child on his initial journey to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally overlook the wording "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it could be the crucial part of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of submissions have already been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received attention across the press, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their search, said that in spite of first skepticism, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical character of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
However, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had by then taken hold".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam answered. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family explained to the consultant they did not want history to repeat itself with their infant.
The plan: To hire a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," said Adam.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will acquire the British traits they wish to cultivate.
He said the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", could the child absorb what is termed cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The family know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and let's go as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who express these reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that an individual can function as a living vessel of Britishness, an individual who can somehow impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, strikes me as optimistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will not necessarily produce the result they hope for.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and yet I have been privileged enough to live several of the situations they aspire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, English culture is something the expert thinks can be educated – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
