“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing. T. S. Eliot writes in one of his poems, “We had the experience but missed the meaning.” Reflection is about getting the meaning.”
Source: Managers Not MBAs (2005), p. 254
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