My two cents as an educator of business people? Any system that tries to categorise from an EITHER/OR perspective will be limited - human beings are too complex to fit into neat boxes, especially when there are only three options.
When you come from an AND perspective, you can use these frameworks (eg, using Visual AND Aural AND Kinesthetic tools in a lesson plan). Students are their own unique combination of factors, and by using all the tools available you as the educator are creating a framework for them to learn according to their own needs.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was where any success of the system comes from. Simply providing students with different ways to learn gives each of them the ability to pick and choose what they will learn best with.
My problem with the "different learning styles" theory is that it is quite disempowering. There aren't many "aural" ways to understand quantum mechanics. I am concerned that "accomodating different learning styles" is really just about dog tricks to meet classroom objectives, rather than giving kids the tools they need to enable them to exceed expectations (most won't, but some will).
While I never went as far as QM I learned a lot of math by listening to a teacher walk though the problem. I have had plenty of classes where I could not read the teachers handing writing and I still got A's on the final.
PS: As a rule I never studied which was fine to get the equivalent of a major in CS, and a minor in math. (I was like 3 classes from a double major, but I took a semester off and wanted to graduate in 4 years.)
My two cents as an educator of business people? Any system that tries to categorise from an EITHER/OR perspective will be limited - human beings are too complex to fit into neat boxes, especially when there are only three options.
When you come from an AND perspective, you can use these frameworks (eg, using Visual AND Aural AND Kinesthetic tools in a lesson plan). Students are their own unique combination of factors, and by using all the tools available you as the educator are creating a framework for them to learn according to their own needs.