"A family located in the northern part of London seeks an remarkable and skilled instructor to assist their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily skip the wording "first-steps" as mere figurative language.
Yet, it may be the most important aspect of this unique position posting, as it seeks to hire a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have since been received since the anonymous family published their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has attracted interest in the media, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, chief executive of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding initial doubt, he considered the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he said they understood the unconventional nature of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he responded. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family told Adam they did not want history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the education at the beginning here is kind of absorbed naturally," said the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they wish to instil.
Adam said the tutor had to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in equestrian activities, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son become a "UK sophisticate" will result in accomplishment and open doors.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
However, notwithstanding all this instruction in "English culture", might the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "They understand this might not succeed, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the education sector who express these reservations.
Another CEO, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer personal educators, wrote that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been educated understanding and embodying two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that a single person can function as a living vessel of English culture, someone who can possibly transfer the attributes of a British gentleman onto a infant child, strikes me as optimistic and impractical," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially English tutor from early childhood will does not necessarily achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity should not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, English culture is something Adam believes can be instructed – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
