"Parents located in North London is looking for an exceptional and qualified instructor to guide their most junior child on his early path to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily miss the wording "first-steps" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it could be the most significant aspect of this unusual position posting, as it aims to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have since been submitted since the unnamed family posted their search for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has attracted interest in the news, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their quest, explained that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he found the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they recognized the unconventional nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then set in".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam replied. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the learning at the outset here is rather osmotic," said the expert.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they want to impart.
The consultant noted the tutor must be somebody who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the chosen tutor should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, creative fields and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a range of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he comments.
Yet, despite all this tutelage in "Britishness", would the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", answered the CEO. "They understand this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who have those reservations.
Peter Cui, chief executive of Blue Education, who provides individual instructors, commented that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
Peter wrote that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and embodying both cultures. He continued to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a embodiment of English culture, an individual who can somehow transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me optimistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a typically UK tutor from early childhood will not necessarily produce the outcome they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to experience several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, personal identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO thinks can be educated – and marketed.
"I believe the reality that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
