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RIDING, TEACHING

Why Horses Don’t Care About Your Learning Style

By TheRidingInstructor 

Every few years, riding instructors are told it’s time to reinvent how we teach.New language appears. New methods gain traction. We’re encouraged to adapt—again—to how students “learn now.”Visual learners. Kinesthetic learners. Emotion-first learners. Inquiry-based learners.Horses, meanwhile, remain stubbornly uninterested.They still

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