Yes, see, this is an example of varied humanity. I found notes didn’t help me understand, and my memory for spoken words and visualized concepts is exceptional.

Yes, see, this is an example of varied humanity. I found notes didn’t help me understand, and my memory for spoken words and visualized concepts is exceptional. Reading the notes I took brought no understanding and while I could find rote concepts there I didn’t understand the material. Once I stopped taking notes and learning the way I learn best I remembered the concepts and details - to this very day decades later. What you list is what works for you - and if objectively didn’t work for me. That’s why the outliers like me get ground under. People say “clearly by my experience your experience can’t work, you must do things my way.” (Not saying you’re meaning this so directly but that’s how it gets applied at school) I would say it’s not a preference specifically but different humans have different facility with their innate abilities. Why would we consider learning by note taking to be an undifferentiated ability but athletic abilities are differentiated? The reality is some people learn better in different ways because our brains are differentiated in their ability. Yes I learn from note taking, but not as well as through different modes because my faculties in those modes are exceptional relative to the mean. But statistical analyses of learning say I must learn better by the statistical mode, despite the fact outlier can and do exist on all the dimensions of learning modalities. Obviously from a policy point of view they should try to teach everyone the most common ways of learning. But we also need to be able to teach to the outliers as well and how to identify who to differentiate. My daughter is different like me, so I send her to a private school that focuses on differentiated learning - and she thrives where she would have suffered like I did in public school. “No child left behind” means “no average child left behind, the outliers are ground down to be average”