"Parents located in North London wants to find an exceptional and experienced tutor to guide their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might readily skip the term "initial stages" as just figurative language.
But, it may be the most significant element of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to hire a mentor for a infant.
Hundreds of applications have since been received since the anonymous family advertised their search for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received notice in the press, with several questioning why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their search, explained that in spite of first doubt, he viewed the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they understood the unusual nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", he answered. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the elder child had picked up "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the outset here is rather absorbed naturally," explained Adam.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will pick up the British traits they want to instil.
Adam said the tutor must be an individual who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or interest in equestrian activities, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and we should start as soon as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he said.
Impractical
Several in the tutoring industry who share these reservations.
An education leader, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies private tutors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from China to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been raised experiencing and practicing two backgrounds. He went on to study at Cambridge University.
"The concept that one individual can function as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, employing a typically UK tutor from infancy will does not necessarily produce the outcome they want.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity can not be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something Adam believes can be taught – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the international society holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
