Only Seven Percent Learn By Hearing

Everyone needs a friend Teachers too So I am one to them Even though I was never their favorite As a student I was too opinionated Too self-assured Too involved in my imagination land Most of what they tried to teach I had to teach myself later For teachers used to do all of the talking We were not in groups We did not pair up We did no talking at all I am a kinesthetic learner So the only thing I could do for self-preservation Was to tune them out completely So I could live my truth Only seven percent of the population of the world Learn through hearing; we call them auditory learners. We have so few, and yet in the 50’s and 60’s Their way is the only way the teachers taught So I took my kinesthetic self, and nurtured her the only way I knew how Today’s teachers have learned better. Yet how do many teach? The way that only reaches seven percent, sadly.