Learning Reflections
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
John Dewey
“Reflective experience turns experience into insight.”
Robert C. Maxwell
“Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflective without learning is dangerous.”
Confucius
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
Thomas Paine
“Reflection is an important strategy for life-long learning, because it leads to the development of autonomy and self-directed professionals. It stimulates personal growth and closes the gap between theory and practice.”
Centre for Learning & Teaching – Brighton University
“Reflective thinking on is not only an organic component in the (Kolb) learning cycle, it is simultaneously the very ground from which knowledge and belief spring. It is both process and product.”
David Cooper
Séamus