Why you need to forget about Learning Styles

Marc Smith
5 min readSep 12, 2022

Formal education often falls victim to the latest fads & trends, and often these have little evidence to support them. One such myth is learning styles

The theory of learning styles suggests people have different ways in which they learn. From this arises the myth, the notion that people learn better when teaching styles are matched to their learning styles, the so-called matching…

--

--

Marc Smith

Chartered Psychologist, author, learning scientist, lover of literature and libraries; accidental poet. https://linktr.ee/marc1857