"A family located in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their most junior child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might naturally skip the wording "beginning" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the most significant aspect of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of submissions have already been submitted since the anonymous family published their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has received interest across the press, with several wondering why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, said that in spite of first doubt, he considered the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unconventional character of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then set in".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they did not want this pattern to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To hire a UK tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will acquire the UK customs they aim to instil.
Adam explained the tutor had to be someone who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope 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, just naturally," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or interest in riding, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he notes.
Yet, despite all this tutelage in "Britishness", would the child pick up alleged cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", replied Adam. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who share similar concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, wrote that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
Peter wrote that he had moved from Asia to the Britain at the time of childhood, and had been educated understanding and living two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can possibly transplant the attributes of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a quintessentially UK tutor from early childhood will does not necessarily produce the goal they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to live numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Of course, English culture is something the expert thinks can be educated – and commercialized.
"In my view the situation that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
