You have a learning style, and teaching to it helps
The old claim turned out to be wrong and was rejected by evidence.
TaughtEveryone is a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner. Find yours and you will learn better when material is presented that way.
NowA 2008 review commissioned by Psychological Science in the Public Interest found essentially no credible evidence for the core prediction. Matching teaching to a supposed style does not improve learning.
What actually happened
The idea is intuitive, humane, and enormously popular. It also makes a specific testable claim: students taught in their preferred style should outperform students taught in a different one. That is the "meshing hypothesis," and it is the part that fails.
Harold Pashler and colleagues surveyed the literature in 2008 and found that almost no studies used the experimental design capable of testing it, and the few adequately designed studies found no effect. Subsequent work has repeatedly failed to find one. People do have preferences about how they like to receive information, and those preferences are real. They just do not predict how well anyone actually learns. Learning styles remain in teacher training and school policy worldwide, which makes this one of the most widely taught claims on this site with the weakest evidence behind it.
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Who was taught this
Still standard through 2015, so anyone who finished school between 1950 and 2009 learned the earlier version.