"A household based in north London is looking for an remarkable and skilled educator to support their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might naturally overlook the term "first-steps" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it may be the most important element of this unique position posting, as it aims to hire a mentor for a infant.
Many of responses have since been sent in since the unidentified family published their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has attracted interest across the media, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that despite early skepticism, he viewed the idea "visionary", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they appreciated the unusual character of their demand, and how immature their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then taken hold".
What exactly did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the elder child had picked up "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid the same situation to repeat itself with their new baby.
The plan: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to shape the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the development at the outset here is kind of osmotic," explained Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the UK customs they want to impart.
Adam explained the tutor needed to be someone who studied at "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must 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 told Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son develop into a "English gentleman" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he adds.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Absolutely", replied the CEO. "They realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who have similar concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
Peter wrote that he had relocated from Asia to the UK at the time of childhood, and had been educated knowing and living dual heritages. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that a single person can serve as a representation of English culture, an individual who can possibly impart the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a infant child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly English tutor from early childhood will does not necessarily achieve the goal they hope for.
"I did not have such a tutor, and however I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity can not be imposed from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, English culture is something the expert thinks can be educated – and sold.
"I think the fact that the global community regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
