Get Your Students Hired
I don’t quite understand the impassioned debate about learning styles theory or meshing hypothesis other than to float your academic boat. Though there is no hard scientific evidence that this 40 year old approach has substantive impact on the learner, seems to me, as a fellow educator, that the method is simply another tool to facilitate the student/instructor relationship and is not meant to be a substitution for loving or commanding your subject and content. Would we still be debating this idea 40 years later if there was no merit to it? Is it a challenge for you to repackage content for the distinct learning capacities of your paying customers? Are you so sure that your past educators did not deftly adapt to your learning style and that is why they had a great impact on you or that you yourself have not found success as an educator because you do this intrinsically? Perhaps you would prefer that the students were all the same; Orwellian automatons, not requiring any unique approaches for them as individuals. Seems to me you just want to protect your authority, either that or, in the context of academia, you take yourself way too seriously.