"Parents residing in North London seeks an remarkable and experienced educator to guide their smallest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally skip the term "initial stages" as simple an expression.
However, it could be the crucial element of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to hire a tutor for a infant.
Many of responses have already been submitted since the anonymous family published their request for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted interest in the media, with several questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding early skepticism, he viewed the concept "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical aspect of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, 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 conditioning had already become established".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had picked up "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family explained to him they did not want this pattern to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will acquire the British traits they want to instil.
The consultant explained the tutor must be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Money No Object
The family told him the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum 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 picking up an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he comments.
But, in spite of all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child adopt so-called cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Certainly", answered he. "The family know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and we should start as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who have these reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who provides private tutors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
The expert noted that he had relocated from China to the UK at the age of seven, and had been raised knowing and practicing both cultures. He went on to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that a single person can serve as a representation of English culture, someone who can somehow transplant the attributes of a UK sophisticate to a one-year-old child, appears naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"From my perspective, having a typically UK tutor from infancy will not instantly create the result they want.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity can not be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the CEO thinks can be instructed – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the global community views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
