"Parents located in North London seeks an remarkable and qualified instructor to assist their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might naturally miss the wording "beginning" as just figurative language.
But, it may be the crucial element of this unusual job advert, as it aims to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of applications have already been sent in since the anonymous family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received notice in the press, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their search, explained that despite initial skepticism, he found the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the atypical nature of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then become established".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", Adam responded. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed him they did not want the same situation to recur with their younger child.
The plan: To bring in a UK tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is kind of osmotic," explained Adam.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to instil.
The consultant explained the tutor must be someone who attended "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
More than that though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son develop into a "English gentleman" will result in success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
But, despite all this tutelage in "UK identity", would the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with regardless?
"Absolutely", replied he. "The family understand this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the private teaching field who express similar doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the process of becoming bicultural, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from China to the United Kingdom at the time of childhood, and had been brought up understanding and practicing two backgrounds. He continued to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that an individual can act as a representation of UK identity, a person who can in some way transplant the attributes of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and unfeasible," he stated.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily achieve the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, personal identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, English culture is something the expert hopes can be educated – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the world views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
