"Parents based in the northern part of London is looking for an exceptional and qualified instructor to guide their smallest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally miss the wording "first-steps" as mere a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the crucial element of this unique job advert, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a infant.
Many of applications have already been received since the unnamed family advertised their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received notice throughout the media, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, said that notwithstanding early doubt, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already set in".
But what does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
The plan: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the start here is somewhat osmotic," explained Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to instil.
The consultant noted the tutor had to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed him the chosen tutor should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, winter sports, artistic pursuits and music so as to inspire the child in a wide range of hobbies.
More than that though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "English gentleman" will bring about success and provide access.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, despite all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child absorb what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", said he. "The family understand this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the education sector who have those reservations.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, stated that "the development of embracing two identities, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
He noted that he had relocated from China to the UK at the period of childhood, and had been raised knowing and living two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can act as a embodiment of Britishness, an individual who can in some way transplant the attributes of a British gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, appears optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from infancy will does not automatically achieve the result they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to experience several of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity cannot be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, English culture is something the expert thinks can be educated – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the world regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
