"Reflection in action is limited to an (inter)active thoughtfulness." I agree with this quote on the first page. Imagine if the class is not motivated and not willing to study, it is difficult for them to reflect on their learning. Similarly, if teachers do not like their job or is not willing to improve, they would not do reflections on their teaching and blame students even if the problem is caused by their inappropriate way of teaching.
"The teacher may reflect or think about all kinds of possibilities but while acting one can only do one thing at a time." A teacher needs to be open to all possible solutions to one question or all possible ways to solve a problem, even if they are only planning to teach one of these methods. This quote can also be known as, a teacher can have their own opinion towards one question but they need to accept all kinds of opinions.
"The aim of critical reflection is to create doubt and critique of ongoing actions." This point is especially important for both learning and teaching. Even if we do "well", we could always do better. Since well is the biggest enemy of better, we should not only satisfied with doing "fine" or "well" and try to do better. And sometimes, doing well and doing better are on different track so that we need to work on another way to become better, and this is why we doubt ourselves.
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