"A household based in north London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled instructor to guide their smallest child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally miss the term "first-steps" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most significant element of this distinctive employment listing, as it aims to recruit a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have already been sent in since the unnamed family published their search for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has received notice in the media, with numerous questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, stated that despite initial doubt, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the unusual aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already taken hold".
What exactly does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had picked up "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the outset here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated the expert.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will pick up the UK customs they wish to instil.
He explained the tutor had to be someone who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told Adam the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and open doors.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he notes.
However, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the multicultural family he lives with regardless?
"Certainly", replied the CEO. "The family understand this may not work, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the tutoring industry who express similar reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, wrote that "the development of embracing two identities, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
Peter wrote that he had moved from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been raised understanding and living dual heritages. He went on to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that a single person can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, an individual who can possibly transfer the attributes of a British gentleman to a 12-month-old child, strikes me as idealistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"Based on my background, having a distinctly English tutor from babyhood will does not instantly produce the goal they want.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience several of the situations they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be taught – and marketed.
"I think the fact that the international society holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
