As a professional educator for the past 12 years, I have absolutely noticed that students have their "preferred" learning styles. I must segue for a moment though, and say that I am VERY glad that the popular "personality tests" for the late 80's and early 90's are not used so much anymore. I always hated the idea that people actually thought you could clasify someone's personality as things like a color (I'm supposedly a Green by the way...) and other methods like that. People are a conglomeration of personality traits that are dominant at different times and therefore cannot be simply classified into a category. Anyway... enough of my rant!!! Back to learning styles. I have found something very interesting in my experience, however. I have noticed that when you challenge a student, or push them to learn using one of the styles they are not necessarily attuned to, the student can actually gain a better, and even more thorough understanding of the material. For instance: Given a student with a dominant Auditory learning style, I will challenge the student to use a more kinesthetic approach to the materials. If they can open their minds to this possibility, they will actually have a better understanding that say a straight kinesthetic learner who is using only that style. It is when styles are pushed (not just combined) that they are most effective. I understand that all students are capable of using each of the four primary styles. But it has always been my experience that students will try with all their energy to stick to the one style they feel works the best for them. I say, Take them out of their comfort zone!! force them to use the other three! the overall impact on their learning is a dramatic improvement not only in numeric grades, but in long term comprehension as well. Thank you. Stephen Campbell