Ryan Floyd

"It's Mental Toughness Day" - Mr. Libro Deep Lessons from Middle School on Life's Absurd Nature Ryan Floyd April 30, 2025 My sixth-grade social studies teacher, Mr. Libro (name changed) taught the best lesson, which I hated: the world just isn’t fair, and sometimes it’s completely absurd. And you just have to deal with it, even if you are just in a middle school classroom. For the entire sixth-grade year in social studies, we had three teams in class for the great game called “Battle.” Yes,...

Robert Caro on Reading: It Doesn't Go Out of Style Lessons from Al Smith, Lady Bird Johnson, and Coke Stevenson Ryan Floyd March 10, 2025 Robert Caro ostensibly wrote his massive books to “show how power works,” as he has stated in many interviews. Beneath his lessons on power—how it’s built, wielded, and lost—runs a quieter, enduring theme: the art of learning. These days, there’s plenty of debate about education and growing up. In an age of Netflix, ChatGPT, YouTube, and TikTok, one may...