The Biggest Myth In Education

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I know to apply the same scrutiny to it as I do Google.

if learning styles exist, i think when we were little our brain had to force itself to learn from the technique used by our teachers that why our brain is able to learn both ways, because i remember i used to have a hard time focusing in classes but i had to pass somehow

My learning style is literally that I will learn something if my brain cares about it enough to remember it. Most things in school were literally just "heres something, we won't really tell you why you need it or where it can be applied" and then "here a grade, this really means nothing because we don't explain what it means"

This makes me think of a buddy who basically refuses to try and understand something via explanation and talks over you going naw I'm gonna need to see it in person to understand without actually trying to understand the explanation it's so ignorant and frustrating like duh you don't understand you actively refusing to attempt to do so

This isn’t learning. This is memorizing. Is repetition a learning style?

For me it always depends. For some topic I like to listen to the teacher, while for others I like to take some notes or see diagrams. So yeah, it depends

0:26 what is with these cursed benches 😮?

There is text there are picture flip books there are pop-up books there are flashcards there is even something called a heat map. You're supposed to use all of the ways of learning.😂

To be honest, I can learn any way.

I think it’s more true that some people have learning weaknesses, not necessarily learning strengths.

Auditory processing is a BITCH yall. For some people at least. I have 40k in college debt so that I could read the textbook in class.

Turns out the only professors I understood (and I literally mean like, could comprehend anything they said at all) spoke at a certain speed. This idea reinforced itself once podcasts got speed up/slow down dials. Finally the world is speaking to me in English.

So that’s definitely just auditory processing stuff. Which has more to do with learning disabilities than learning styles.

There are neurological differences in thinking though. The difference between bottom up and top down thinking is very important to me because it helps me explain why I have trouble in certain situations.

my learning style is: audhd and sht at auditory reaction and processing time :)

This host thinks that learning and memory are the same thing. a moment of thought would reveal that this is not factual at all.

I only do stuff in fear or if my teacher forces me

I have IQ 157. I completed high school but university was out of my reach. I just found a job, I learned two languages, computer -pc-mac-linux. Went to work after school and end up as director of IT. It took me few years to work my self up but I did it. The best way to learn is doing. Do what others hate, most time it is well payed. Also learn on job. That is free school of life. Never, ever be late.

When it comes to sexual education, I am a visual learner

I'm all of them:)

People learn because they are interested in what they are learning. Its not about the fact that images are used or that words are used, but instead its about how they are used.

This is complete bs, there is so much evidence against this whole "myth". Millions of examples of people who struggled with learning some sort of subject, to immediately learn it a lot better when taught in a different style, I myself have gone through this. This style of thinking didn't start with one guy who coined the term, it started with hundreds of people who realized that learning for them was a struggle, until they found a teacher or medium who taught it to them in a different way.

I really didn't like classes where teachers used power point presentations. I found writing things down, reading etc.. to be best along with working on formulas in class. Finance and power point was terrible.

We all learned to cycle the same way.

I’m actually not a visual learner. I learn it thorough listening (auditory)

False

Not only the biggest myth, but arguably the most harmful myth.

You’re a visual learner? Watch all the videos you want, then we will see how well you play guitar. Left handed. I know where my money would be.

I DON'T KNOW MY LEARNING STYLE, I like hands on cause it helps me understand, but i am engaged in reading and writing styles from textbooks and it gives me a good understanding. I like to listen as the speaker might give me different perspectives to look and things and i like visual as it helps me understand how to engage in something!!! Im also very good at memory, in both auditory and visual, so those tests doesn't tell me if I do good or not!!! Veritasium, please help me

So many labels. You’re this or that. Do we really have to name every single thing? I am a learner. Some subjects I’m a visual learner, others a kinesthetic (doing) and still other subjects I learn best by discussion (auditory learning). Sometimes I wonder if, even in the best of intentions, you give someone a label and they just feel stuck with it the rest of their lives even though it’s not even true. Just saying. 😅

im sorry spon from WHO

Interesting. I wonder how an auditory learner will fare in geography.

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I don't think it's a myth. I am definitely a kinaesthetic learner. I simply can't retain information unless I'm in control or involved with what I'm learning.

A good example is if I was to play a card game I've never played before, I would need to play first to understand the rules. Even if the rules were explained to me 100 times without playing, I wouldn't retain any of that information, but the moment I start playing, I retain all of it.

i also improve GREATLY when I take time off from playing guitar. I think it has more to do, with being stuck in a certain pattern of thought process. taking time off and coming back, I might approach the same riff completely different. its like standing up and realizing you were sitting on the remote the entire time. 😂😭

i just have good pattern recognition , and bad attention skills 😭 😂 . Ive played guitar for 20 years and i know nothing about music. I can improvise for hours but when its time to learn specific songs its like tryna get me to read a book or sit still. I even have a hard time tabbing my own music because I think of playing in shapes and parts, not note by note. 😭 i always compare it to dominoes, a 3 cant connect to a 8, but if its other side is also an 8, than the 3 can connect to it. thats how you get a "wrong" or "right" note to be a "right" or "wrong" note in the first place.

i actually based a large phase of my life on this, even my teachers advised us to find our style. But really glad to know the element of truth in this, love ur videos.

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I believe all humans develop a learning language. For those who practice their affinity for text, or math, the learning language becomes more fluent than simply visual. For those who don't practice alternative types of idea languages, visual fluency takes over. Complex ideas can absolutely be conveyed with only visual information. This is why only some geniuses master physics and expand theory while equivalent geniuses never come close. Those equivalent geniuses may discover new things, but lack the fluency to translate the idea into a form fit for consumption by those with greater learning fluency.

I also believe schools are stressing-out students to the point where some people actually become resistant to developing their learning fluency.