Targeted, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and so on. All refer to teaching students in accordance with the laws of their physical and mental development.

Confucius, an ancient educator and thinker in China, once suggested that educating people should be "deep, shallow, beneficial and respectful", that is, he advocated "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, which varies from person to person". From now on, his original intention is to admit the differences and carry out differentiated and hierarchical teaching, with the aim of making everyone gain something and improve and develop through learning.

Professor Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard University in the United States, believes that no two people in the world have exactly the same intelligence, and everyone has gathered all kinds of intelligence in their own unique combination. The differences among students exist objectively, regardless of human will.

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Faced with these differences, any unified method is doomed to failure. The correct choice should be to respect differences, treat differences correctly and develop differences as a resource.

Since 1990s, with the development of science and technology and the trend of in-depth differentiation and comprehensive integration of various disciplines, the research on individual differences has been further miniaturized and integrated.

The former, such as a large number of studies on individual self-efficacy, information processing mode and cognitive style, and the latter, such as many studies, explain the formation and development of individual differences from the perspective of the interaction between environment and people by emphasizing the unity of intellectual factors and non-intellectual factors.

In recent years, the study of individual differences is still a hot issue in psychology and pedagogy, and individual difference variables such as learning style, internal motivation and cognitive style have gradually attracted people's attention.