"A household located in north London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to guide their youngest child on his early path to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily skip the term "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most important element of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of responses have now been submitted since the unnamed family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the listing has received interest across the news, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding initial doubt, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual nature of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had by then become established".
But what does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told him they wished to avoid history to recur with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the education at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," said Adam.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will acquire the British traits they aim to cultivate.
He noted the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
Additionally though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
But, despite all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child pick up what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The parents know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the education sector who have these reservations.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He wrote that he had relocated from China to the United Kingdom at the time of childhood, and had been educated knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can in some way impart the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he wrote.
"From my perspective, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will not instantly achieve the goal they hope for.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and however I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the world regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
