Do you believe the premise of learning styles is silly or how they are being used is silly?

I would argue that any idea that can help a learner understand their preferences, strengths and weaknesses are valuable as you can play to your strengths when appropriate and work on improving your weaknesses to become more versatile in general. However, if the premise of learning styles is used to justify why the learner can not accomplish it seems to be taking specialization to a truly unfortunate level.

Really interesting Jon - Thanks

This does create great challenges especially in the formative K-5 years when children have parental and home expectations buffeted against whatever philosophy may or may not exist at school and/or with their peer communities. How many parents have the time to appreciate the implications of the issues raised here and can create effective and supportive environments to allow their children to grow with an reasonable balance of product and process? I guess society needs a good mix of "types" although I am not really sure what a good mix is.