"Parents based in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their smallest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the phrase "initial stages" as just an expression.
But, it could be the most significant part of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have now been received since the unnamed family posted their request for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the advert has received interest in the news, with numerous questioning why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their hunt, said that in spite of early doubt, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he mentioned they appreciated the atypical character of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
But, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then become established".
What exactly did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he answered. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had picked up "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family informed the consultant they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their infant.
The plan: To bring in a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the learning at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the British traits they aim to impart.
He explained the tutor had to be an individual who studied at "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to him the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in horse riding, alpine skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in accomplishment and create opportunities.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
However, despite all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", said the CEO. "The family understand this may not work, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who express those reservations.
Peter Cui, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies private tutors, wrote that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been educated understanding and embodying dual heritages. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The idea that a single person can act as a embodiment of English culture, an individual who can in some way transfer the attributes of a UK sophisticate to a 12-month-old child, appears naive and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically UK tutor from infancy will not instantly create the outcome they want.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to experience many of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity should not be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO hopes 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
