It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
The relationship of reflective thinking to the education process , or maybe just to "a process", seems to be where Dewey wants to go with his look at what "thinking is". I compare this to what Thoreau said in Walden. He claimed that one could best be a philosopher not just by having by having a variety of thoughts but by actually loving wisdom. It seems like for Dewey wisdom was a process, rather than specific concepts. The book, "How We Think", is often mentioned as a basic for those that want to teach. Is teaching just about learning or is it about concepts. Is learning something that as Dewey suggests is just a process or does the material thought about more important than the process.
Canon is a word that means the particular choice of books. Maybe the connection and influences of canon are really what drives thought. If so then reading matters. If not it may still matter but then but only as a process rather than an influence.
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