What this eclectic selection of passages essentially conveys is a conceptualization of reflection as a mode of thought that entails mulling over ideas that have no necessary connection and eventually producing from them, and from the perceived interconnections among them. new meanings and ideas. Reflection can thus be seen as being more closely aligned with creativity than analysis.

Ellen Rose

On reflection – An Essay on Technology, Education, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-First Century , Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. (2013)