Mosston's learning style spectrum

I am intending to peruse 'Teaching Physical Education' by Mosston and Ashworth, detailing in full Mosston's ideas of the learning style spectrum. Not only does it describes the different approaches characterised by each style, it also specifies the objectives that these will serve, the prerequisites necessary for implementation, and also the method to go about using them, with examples. Totally, absolutely fascinating. I have no doubt that any teach who devours this book and can use each of the learning styles appropriately in different situations, he or she will be an expert teacher instantly.

I think knowing these different styles in teaching intimately should be the focus of a teacher's education, rather than the propagation of certain preferred teaching approaches. For example, I see NIE's preferred 'reader response' approach to teaching lit appreciation as being pretty useless in a lot of contexts; you can't seek to invoke students' independent thinking without first imparting fundamental knowledge, which is often best facilitated by using the 'command' style or 'guided discovery' style of teaching. In other words, you can't always be biased towards student-centered learning and prejudiced against the teacher-centered approach.

Interestingly, I think that the classroom is an environment where student-centered learning is can be better mediated. In PE, teachers tend to use the command style because there is a lot of spatial and temporal variables to control, plus sometimes there is the need to enforce pseudo-authority by being the last word on everything to prevent chaos in the class.