"A family located in North London seeks an remarkable and skilled tutor to assist their smallest child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily skip the wording "beginning" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most important aspect of this unique job advert, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of applications have already been received since the unnamed family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has attracted interest in the news, with numerous questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that despite early skepticism, he found the idea "visionary", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the atypical nature of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then become established".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," said the CEO.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
Adam explained the tutor had to be someone who went to "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told the expert the selected educator should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son develop into a "English gentleman" will bring about success and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he adds.
However, despite all this instruction in "English culture", would the child pick up so-called cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", answered the CEO. "They know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the private teaching field who share similar concerns.
Peter Cui, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides private tutors, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the Britain at the period of 7 years old, and had been brought up understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can serve as a representation of Britishness, a person who can possibly impart the characteristics of a British gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, having a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will will not instantly create the outcome they desire.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live many of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and marketed.
"I think the situation that the international society views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
