Actually, teaching styles is more what I meant. Perhaps a better phrasing would have been different people respond to learning differently, though that still doesn’t sound right.
For this, I have only anecdotal evidence, albeit quite strong. I’ve seen it, both in people I’ve tried to teach things to, and in people I’ve learned alongside.
I find the reactions to this topic in this thread very interesting, given that the (currently) second-most-upvoted article on the site contains this passage:
There’s a lot of data on teaching methods that students enjoy and learn from. I had some of these methods...inflicted...on me during my school days, and I had no intention of abusing my own students in the same way. And when I tried the sorts of really creative stuff I would have loved as a student...it fell completely flat. What ended up working? Something pretty close to the teaching methods I’d hated as a kid. Oh. Well. Now I know why people use them so much. And here I’d gone through life thinking my teachers were just inexplicably bad at what they did, never figuring out that I was just the odd outlier who couldn’t be reached by this sort of stuff.
Actually, teaching styles is more what I meant. Perhaps a better phrasing would have been different people respond to learning differently, though that still doesn’t sound right. For this, I have only anecdotal evidence, albeit quite strong. I’ve seen it, both in people I’ve tried to teach things to, and in people I’ve learned alongside.
I find the reactions to this topic in this thread very interesting, given that the (currently) second-most-upvoted article on the site contains this passage: