"Parents residing in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their most junior child on his initial journey to becoming an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily skip the wording "first-steps" as mere a turn of phrase.
But, it could be the most important part of this unique job advert, as it seeks to hire a tutor for a infant.
Numerous of submissions have since been submitted since the unidentified family published their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has received notice in the press, with several wondering why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding first doubt, he found the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual nature of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family informed him they did not want this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To bring in a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the start here is somewhat osmotic," explained the CEO.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they wish to impart.
Adam said the tutor had to be someone who studied at "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told him the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of passions.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son become a "English gentleman" will result in accomplishment and open doors.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
However, despite all this instruction in "Britishness", might the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", said he. "The family realize this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who share similar reservations.
Peter Cui, head and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing both cultures. He continued to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that a single person can function as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can in some way transplant the attributes of a English gentleman onto a infant child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially English tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily produce the outcome they hope for.
"I did not have such a tutor, and however I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
"I think the reality that the international society holds us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
