"A household located in north London seeks an remarkable and skilled instructor to assist their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally miss the term "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most significant part of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of submissions have now been received since the anonymous family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has gained notice throughout the media, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding first scepticism, he considered the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he said they understood the unconventional nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then set in".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam answered. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to him they did not want history to happen again with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," said Adam.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will acquire the UK customs they wish to instil.
He noted the tutor needed to be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of hobbies.
Additionally though, he explained the family desired the tutor to register the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he comments.
However, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child absorb what is termed cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as early as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who have similar doubts.
Peter Cui, chief executive of Blue Education, who also offer private tutors, stated that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
He explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the UK at the age of childhood, and had been educated understanding and practicing both cultures. He continued to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can act as a representation of UK identity, someone who can somehow transfer the qualities of a British gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, having a typically English tutor from infancy will not instantly produce the result they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience many of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, personal identity should not be forced from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something Adam believes can be educated – and sold.
"I believe the fact that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
