Bull Pucky! Let me tell you my story. By third grade I could not read. I didn't get it. How could people remember all those words? Yet I had one of those o

Bull Pucky! Let me tell you my story. By third grade I could not read. I didn't get it. How could people remember all those words? Yet I had one of those off the wall IQs. In third grade they put me in Remedial Reading taught by Mrs. Gordon. If there is a Heaven, then there must be a special place in it for people like Mrs. Gordon. Up until then we were supposed to learn to read by reading. It was the big thing then: learn to read the same way we learned to speak: by doing it. It worked for lots of kids. Not for me. Mrs. Gordon taught me phonetics. That summer I was reading novels. I once read a textbook on cognitive psychology. The author ranted about how awful phonetics was. Clearly there are differences in learning styles. VARK appears to be wrong. It looks like too much thought and too little experimentation to me. That doesn't mean there aren't differences in learning styles.