"Parents located in the northern part of London seeks an extraordinary and experienced instructor to support their most junior child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally skip the term "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
However, it could be the most important aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to recruit a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of applications have since been received since the unnamed family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has gained notice in the press, with many asking why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, chief executive of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their hunt, said that in spite of early scepticism, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual character of their request, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had already become established".
But what did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam answered. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He stated the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family explained to the consultant they did not want this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a English tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," explained the expert.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to instil.
He explained the tutor needed to be somebody who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, creative fields and music so as to shape the child in a wide range of hobbies.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Yes", said the CEO. "They realize this could fail, but they've just taken the view of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who share similar concerns.
An education leader, chief executive of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
Peter explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been raised knowing and living both cultures. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that one individual can function as a representation of UK identity, a person who can somehow transfer the characteristics of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly British tutor from babyhood will will not automatically create the outcome they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
"In my view the fact that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating