The Examined Path Through Experiential learning — Dewey and Kolb

Dewey's foundational insight — that we do not learn from experience but from reflection on experience — was formalized by Kolb into the experiential learning cycle: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. Without the reflective step, experience accumulates without generating understanding; with it, even failure becomes generative. The Sutric emphasis on svādhyāya (self-study, disciplined reflection on one's own experience) is experiential learning applied not to skills but to the study of consciousness itself.

The course sequence, in order.

Each step builds on the last.