"A family residing in North London is looking for an exceptional and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily miss the term "first-steps" as simple figurative language.
But, it might be the most important element of this unique employment listing, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have since been received since the unnamed family advertised their search for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained attention across the news, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their quest, stated that despite initial skepticism, he considered the idea "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
But, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had by then set in".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid the same situation to recur with their infant.
The intention: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the beginning here is kind of absorbed naturally," stated Adam.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they wish to cultivate.
He said the tutor must be somebody who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, the arts and music so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Furthermore though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he notes.
But, in spite of all this tutelage in "Britishness", could the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the international family he resides with in any case?
"Absolutely", answered Adam. "They realize this could fail, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he said.
Impractical
Several in the education sector who have these concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who supplies private tutors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been educated understanding and embodying both cultures. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that one individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can somehow impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, appears naive and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a quintessentially UK tutor from babyhood will not automatically create the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to live several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, self-identity can not be forced from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be instructed – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
