"Parents based in north London wants to find an remarkable and experienced educator to guide their youngest child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily skip the term "initial stages" as mere an expression.
But, it may be the most important element of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to recruit a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have since been sent in since the unidentified family advertised their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has gained notice in the press, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their quest, explained that notwithstanding first skepticism, he found the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he mentioned they appreciated the unusual aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already set in".
But what does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert answered. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed the consultant they hoped to prevent this pattern to happen again with their new baby.
The plan: To hire a British tutor, who must speak with RP, to shape the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the education at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," stated the CEO.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they wish to impart.
He noted the tutor needed to be somebody who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the chosen tutor should preferably also have understanding of or interest in equestrian activities, skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and provide access.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
However, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child pick up what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Yes", answered the CEO. "The parents know this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the education sector who have these doubts.
An education leader, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the Britain at the time of childhood, and had been educated experiencing and practicing two backgrounds. He went on to study at Cambridge University.
"The concept that one individual can act as a representation of English culture, someone who can somehow impart the qualities of a English gentleman onto a one-year-old child, appears optimistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will not instantly achieve the goal they want.
"I never had such a figure, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the situations they hope for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, cultural identity cannot be imposed from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, Britishness is something the expert believes can be taught – and marketed.
"In my view the fact that the global community regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
