boondoggle is a scheme intended to fool (i.e. bamboozle, hornswoggle, hoodwink - other words you may have heard which are very similar in meaning) people into believing that all is well, that a dire situation is in fact under control. In this vein, the term government boondoggle is rather redundant.
If you are a visual learner, you learn by reading or seeing pictures. You understand and remember things by sight. You can picture what you are learning in your head, and you learn best by using methods that are primarily visual. You like to see what you are learning.
And we both think the other person is smart! - A WorldWide Learn user. People learn in different ways. And no one has a better learning style than anyone else. Some experts say there are as many as seven different learning styles; but it's easier to narrow it down to three types of learning... We'll call them: 1  Listening learners. 2  Seeing learners. 3  Touch / experience learners.