The Einstein Challenge

Odd show: show determines an overall theme for an episode. E.g. Middle ages.

Then determines something to be explained. E.g. How a printing press worked.

Then a person who knows how it works, tries to teach it to 3 kids, within 1 minute.

Then they ask the kids 3 questions about it to see if they retained anything. Usually they don't.

Then the teacher gets money based on how much the kids retained.

Then another teacher goes there and does the same on a different topic.

Both teachers are competing to get the most money.

So we have certain problems: 1) trying to explain complex things in a rushed way. 2) mixture of information that adults would be bored watching, with some other interesting ones. 3) uninterested, not brilliant children. 4) adults watching would feel being talked down to. 5) experts being payed bananas to teach and having to compete for it. 6) kids can forget something that was explained and the teacher doesn't the money, and kids can fabricate an answer about something that wasn't explained and the teacher get money for it. 7) teachers are explaining things with outdated graphics: just pictures, instead of videos. 8) kids being evaluated in front of the world: "That's incorrect." Could cause trauma?