"A household residing in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and qualified instructor to assist their most junior child on his initial journey to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily skip the phrase "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
Yet, it might be the most important part of this unique position posting, as it aims to recruit a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of submissions have now been received since the unnamed family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received interest across the media, with several asking why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding early scepticism, he found the idea "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he noted they recognized the atypical nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already taken hold".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the elder child had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family informed him they did not want the same situation to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To hire a British tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the start here is somewhat osmotic," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will acquire the British traits they wish to instil.
Adam noted the tutor needed to be somebody who studied at "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in riding, alpine skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son become a "English gentleman" will lead to success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he comments.
However, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child absorb what is termed cultural bias from the international family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", said the CEO. "They know this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the education sector who share those reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of Blue Education, who also offer private tutors, stated that "the development of embracing two identities, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He noted that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been brought up understanding and embodying both cultures. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can serve as a representation of English culture, someone who can possibly impart the characteristics of a English gentleman onto a infant child, appears naive and unfeasible," he commented.
"From my perspective, employing a quintessentially UK tutor from early childhood will not instantly produce the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and however I have been fortunate enough to live several of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, self-identity should not be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be educated – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
