Sadly, Harold, it seems that learning styles are all the rage at the moment in secondary schools in the UK. From my classmates, who are mostly teachers, I have discovered that a variety of models have been adopted with a frightening lack of objectivity. In spite of Gardner having issued a statement to the effect that his theory of multiple intelligences was never intended to form the basis of a system of testing, one of my classmates reports that this is the system they have adopted at their school. Whether the teachers support the notion of learning styles or not, they are to classify and categorise their students and issue a report on the make-up of their groups. Unsettling. Pigeon-holing. Test-results driven. Where is the personalisation in all of this? Where the learning? Where the CHILDREN for goodness sake? As a learning professional, this bothers me. As a parent, I am incensed!