"Parents based in north London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled educator to guide their smallest child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the phrase "beginning" as simple figurative language.
But, it could be the most important part of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of applications have already been received since the unidentified family advertised their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has attracted attention in the press, with numerous questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, chief executive of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their search, explained that in spite of initial skepticism, he considered the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he said they appreciated the atypical aspect of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid the same situation to repeat itself with their infant.
The plan: To engage a English tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the learning at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," stated the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they want to impart.
Adam explained the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an musical 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.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", answered Adam. "The parents understand this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'we should try and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who have similar concerns.
Peter Cui, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides private tutors, wrote that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a representation of Britishness, a person who can in some way impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a one-year-old child, seems to me naive and impractical," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a typically English tutor from babyhood will does not instantly produce the result they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and however I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, cultural identity can not be imposed from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, English culture is something Adam thinks can be taught – and sold.
"I believe the reality that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
