"Parents based in North London is looking for an remarkable and experienced educator to guide their most junior child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily skip the phrase "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it may be the most significant aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it attempts to find a mentor for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have since been received since the unnamed family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has received notice throughout the news, with numerous wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their search, stated that despite early doubt, he found the idea "visionary", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they appreciated the atypical character of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already become established".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family told Adam they did not want history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To hire a English tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the education at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," said the CEO.
It's via this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they want to instil.
Adam explained the tutor needed to be someone who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
Furthermore though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child absorb alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", answered the CEO. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who express these doubts.
Peter Cui, head and founder of Blue Education, who supplies private tutors, wrote that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the period of seven, and had been brought up knowing and living both cultures. He progressed to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that an individual can function as a living vessel of UK identity, someone who can in some way transplant the attributes of a British gentleman onto a infant child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"In my experience, having a typically English tutor from infancy will not automatically achieve the goal they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to live several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity cannot be imposed from the outside; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something the CEO thinks can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I believe the fact that the global community regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
