My Reaction: I enjoyed Willingham's book. I have always liked psychology. The mind is such a fascinating thing to study. There was information on chunking, comprehension, and long and short term memory. The importance of practice, which every teacher knows, was mentioned. The examples Willingham gave to illustrate his points were relevent and easy to understand; for example in explaining the ninth principle, he said that he has a lot of experience driving a car but has not been tryng to improve his skills since he took his driver's test (Willingham, 2009, 76%). He also included a lot of illustrations and tables to support his findings. I was most surprised by principle 7: "Children are more alike than different in terms of how they think and learn" (Willingham, 2009, 59%). Willingham lists a dozen ways in which scientists have attempted to classify learners and says they are all incorrect. Willingham states that in order to be true a cognitive style theory should "consistently attribute to a person the same style, it should show that people with different styles think and learn differently, and it should show that people with different styles do not, on average, differ in ability. At this point there is not a theory that has these characteristics" (Willingham, 2009, 60%). When I earned my BA in 1988 the educational curriculum emphasized learning styles. While it at first seems to make sense, I am convinced that Willingham is correct.