"A family based in the northern part of London seeks an exceptional and experienced tutor to assist their smallest child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might naturally miss the phrase "first-steps" as mere a turn of phrase.
However, it could be the most significant part of this unique job advert, as it aims to recruit a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been received since the unidentified family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has received notice throughout the news, with numerous wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, explained that notwithstanding initial scepticism, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already taken hold".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He stated the elder child had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to him they did not want this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To bring in a British tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the learning 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 British traits they want to impart.
Adam noted the tutor must be someone who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, skiing, the arts and music so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
Furthermore though, he said the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a range of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he adds.
But, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", would the child adopt what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Certainly", answered he. "They understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who share those reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of an educational organization, who supplies private tutors, commented that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the time of seven, and had been raised knowing and living two backgrounds. He went on to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can function as a embodiment of Britishness, someone who can in some way transfer the characteristics of a British gentleman to a 12-month-old child, appears naive and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, employing a distinctly English tutor from infancy will will not instantly produce the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, self-identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the CEO believes can be instructed – and marketed.
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