Rudd on Stability of Learning Styles (:50)

Rudd: They’re pretty stable actually.  We can learn, and most of us do learn, to learn in situations that don’t particularly match our preferred way of learning, our own preferred learning style.  For example, someone who’s field independent might have more trouble in a social setting early on in their learning, but as we get older, we learn how to cope and deal and learn in situations that require us to be social.  Field dependent learners, although they prefer a more social way of learning, learn to cope with and actually be productive in situations where they have to be individual in their learning.  So our preferred way of learning stays pretty stable, but because we’re bright and people will learn how to learn in different situations.