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Learning styles is an interesting idea and has become something of a "sacred cow" in education but the awful reality is that most businesses (and for that matter, professional schools) couldn't give a hot damn about what of learner you are; the message in those environments is typically "our way or the highway. In both law school and graduate school (in clinical psychology) you were expected to conform to the style being used, not the other way around. I also never had an employer ever ask me (or seem to care) what my learning style was--what they cared about was whether or not I could do the job they wanted. I think that it is often the duty of the individual student to figure out how to make the material being taught fit their style as opposed to expecting teachers to accommodate them. Therefore, that might be a more realistic approach to take than to try to adapt your methods to four admittedly different styles. What do you think?

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