"Parents residing in North London wants to find an exceptional and skilled instructor to guide their smallest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might easily miss the term "initial stages" as just figurative language.
But, it may be the crucial element of this unique employment listing, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of applications have since been received since the unidentified family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the advert has gained interest throughout the press, with several asking why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that despite first doubt, he considered the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he mentioned they recognized the unusual nature of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he replied. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed the consultant they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To hire a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the learning at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," explained the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will acquire the British traits they aim to impart.
Adam explained the tutor must be somebody who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed him the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or passion in equestrian activities, skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son develop into a "English gentleman" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
But, despite all this instruction in "English culture", might the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", answered the CEO. "They understand this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who express these doubts.
An education leader, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had relocated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the period of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and living two backgrounds. He continued to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that an individual can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can in some way impart the characteristics of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me idealistic and impractical," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from babyhood will will not instantly achieve the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, cultural identity should not be imposed from the outside; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Of course, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be educated – and sold.
"I believe the reality that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating