Paul Rossi: AI, Education, and the Magic of Calculus

0:00 – Intro: Paul Rossi of the Terra Firma Teaching Alliance
1:11 – Supporting traditional teachers
3:03 – Cancellation and professional exile for teachers
5:01 – Touring with Scott Thompson and the Ogunquit show
6:46 – Gay comedy, the Kids in the Hall, and edgy humor
10:13 – Progressive pedagogy vs. direct instruction
14:28 – Sending a Covid baby to kindergarten
16:23 – Teachers who call students "my kids"
17:27 – Bad sleepers, birth control, and sperm donors
22:04 – Gattaca and kids who struggle with math
26:05 – A calculus memory and a friend's Armenian dad
28:02 – What is calculus? Differentiation explained
32:00 – Integration and the area under the curve
32:47 – Isaac Newton, alchemy, and Leibniz
34:36 – How math minds see the world and Drumeo
37:37 – From literature to math and leaving academia
41:37 – The Zoom meeting that started his cancellation
43:57 – Tema Okun and characteristics of white supremacy
46:15 – Degraded scholarship and lived experience
48:51 – Rocket launches and getting things done
49:44 – How AI is changing education
54:02 – Why kids should memorize times tables
57:13 – Why students should still read the classics
59:50 – Nonprofits and the marketplace of ideas
1:01:03 – Wrap-up