2593. Nothing can be learned without reflection
When reflection is absent, nothing comes into the memory, as is quite obvious. Even if the human sight is surrounded by thousands and thousands of objects, one nevertheless retains none of them in the memory on which one had not bestowed outward reflection. Likewise, when people are thinking something on which they had reflected, this they retain in the memory. In short, without reflection nothing resides in a person.
2593. THAT NOTHING CAN BE LEARNED WITHOUT REFLECTION.
When reflection is absent not [anything] comes into the memory, as is sufficiently evident; although the human sight is diffused into thousands and thousands of objects, yet nevertheless the memory retains none of them upon which he has had no external reflection. In like manner when he thinks that upon which he has had reflection the memory retains. In a word, without reflection nothing is infixed in man.
2593. Quod nihil absque reflexione disci queat
Cum reflexio abest, non in memoriam venit, ut satis constat; licet visus humanus circumfusus est in millia et millia objectorum, [homo] usque tamen memoria nullum eorum retinet, in quod non habuerit reflexionem externam, similiter dum [id] cogitat, in quod reflexionem habuit, hoc memoria tenet. Verbo absque reflexione nihil insidet homini.