not a thing prompting the person to act in certain ways (Lawrence, 1993, 187).
We see, then, that Lawrence's type theory, designed to improve teaching and learning in practical application to the classroom, just as importantly provides a more humane and hopeful portrait of the human being than does the alternative trait theory. Teaching in his scheme is not merely a matter of fitting square pegs into square holes, but rather allows for changes in the individual student which allow him or her to be both "square" and "round," in a sense--to develop as a "whole" person rather than as to be seen as a "finished" product with limited learning capacity.
Lawrence's approach is based on the MBTI, or the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. According to the MBTI, discovery of the individual student's particular "type" allows the teacher to apply effective teaching
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