Learning styles do exist. However, a learning style does not specifically define how a person learns material. The type of content that is trying to be taught determines the way a person learns. Learning styles can become relativly unimportant in some learning categories while they play a prevelant role in others.
When a teacher attempts to teach material to a class, learning styles become irrelavent. It is nearly impossible for a teacher to instruct a classroom using all three learning styles in a manner that will help the studnets understand the content more easily. Classroom instruction should be thought of as using the best method to teach a certain material. Each material being taught inside of a classroom has a specific way that it is best learned.
The best philosphy for using learning styles is to structure the material to be taught in a way that can be best understood by each student. Learning styles should not be used in a way to label students. Instead it should be a preference of each student on how they prefer to learn.
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