"Parents residing in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and experienced educator to support their smallest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might naturally skip the wording "beginning" as mere figurative language.
However, it may be the most significant part of this distinctive employment listing, as it aims to hire a teacher for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of submissions have already been received since the anonymous family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has attracted interest in the media, with numerous asking why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unusual aspect of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified 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 stage "cultural influence had already set in".
But what did the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam responded. "How you eat, how you speak".
He stated the older sibling had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they hoped to prevent the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the learning at the outset here is rather acquired indirectly," explained Adam.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they wish to instil.
He explained the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, creative fields and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family desired the tutor to register the child on a range of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he comments.
However, despite all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child absorb what is termed cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "The family know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the private teaching field who share similar concerns.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies personal educators, wrote that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had moved from Asia to the Britain at the time of seven, and had been brought up understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can function as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can somehow transplant the qualities of a English gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"From my perspective, employing a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will not automatically achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to live several of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, personal identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the expert hopes can be instructed – and sold.
"I think the reality that the world holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
