What it takes to be Saved

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A group of children's lives are at stake. A PhD professor in a well known university is given a task to explain Einstein's law of relatively to his children from a neighborhood kindergarten in a playground that is in fire.

In the event that the child gets to understand from the professor's teaching, the children will be spared from being burned alive.

Question:
1. What is the likelihood that the child be saved?
2. What are the 2 main qualities that the professor must have in order to succeed?

The knowledgeable professor in quantum physics is not sufficient to impart this knowledge to a child. I am sure you may have been taught by teacher in school who are very knowledgeable and yet failed to impart the knowledge to you.

It takes wisdom and compassion by the professor to save the child. By the way, wisdom does not equal knowledge. To answer what is the difference in a sentence is that: knowledge will have to identify the problem while it takes wisdom to solve the problem.

The professor must be wise to use the correct methodology and know that the level of understanding from the child is not the same as his. In addition, professor must also have the compassion to save the child to the other shore of safety (to be enlightened for the child, be a profession himself/herself and save other children).

Likewise, we sentient beings are like a child while the Buddhas are the professor in the above scenario (with Bodhisattvas as the child's senior students and alumnus).