Learning styles and individualism

We are all different. What is best for you educationally is not the same as what's best for me. Unfortunately, the teaching profession has generally shown intolerance for differences between their students.

Sight and sound, the two primary concepts frequently misrepresented as learning styles, were never meant to embrace individuality. They were actually developed to further the teaching profession's anti-individualistic agenda.

Like I have previously stated, some teachers add a third learning style or even more. These learning styles are shallow attempts to circumvent the accommodation of individual needs. It's much easier for a teacher to teach to two or three pre-determined learning styles than to have to learn and adapt to every single one of their students.

Despite the push teachers made for these learning styles, they never actually differentiated their teaching methods. Their typical approach was to make sure all students heard and read everything that was expected to be remembered. If these learning styles were truly valid, they were using methods on students that weren't expected to work. They would waste time on lectures for those who learned through sight, and the auditory learners were still expected to spend a lot of time reading.