"Parents based in north London wants to find an remarkable and qualified educator to guide their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might naturally skip the term "beginning" as just an expression.
However, it might be the most significant element of this unusual position posting, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have already been received since the anonymous family advertised their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the post has attracted interest in the press, with several asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that notwithstanding initial scepticism, he viewed the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual nature of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
But, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already set in".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam responded. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
The strategy: To hire a British tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the development at the outset here is kind of osmotic," said the CEO.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they wish to instil.
The consultant explained the tutor had to be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told Adam the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
Yet, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the international family he resides with anyway?
"Absolutely", replied the CEO. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've just taken the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who share these concerns.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the time of childhood, and had been educated understanding and embodying dual heritages. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that a single person can serve as a living vessel of English culture, an individual who can somehow transfer the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially English tutor from early childhood will not automatically produce the goal they hope for.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience many of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert believes can be taught – and sold.
"I believe the situation that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
