In relation to the quote from Getting to Maybe, let me relate an incident that utterly floored me.

On Tuesday evening, during a group discussion session in our Learning & Teaching lecture (I'm busy with a part-time MA in Education), one of my classmates told me that his school has assessed the learning styles of the students. I'm not sure what model they've used, but they have organised the children into four quadrants. They have determined that children with learning style B are better suited to and more likely to succeed under exam conditions. However, the highest proportion of their students fall into quadrant C - a less academic, more practical set. So the head teacher has issued a directive to the teachers to find ways to transform all these Cs into Bs so that the school will achieve better exam results. I don't need to spell out any more than that what is going on here, and what the head teacher's drivers are. But do we blame him/her or the system that is behind these drivers?