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When my middle school students and I discuss Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s (1943) observation that it is “only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye,” topics of friendship and personal identity invariably arise. Through discussion and observation I have observed that students often perceive their friends as possessing the practically exclusive capacity to reveal to them their true identities.
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Podsiadlik, E. (2014). Double-Consciousness as Metaphor. In: Podsiadlik, E. (eds) Anecdotes and Afterthoughts. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-728-5_12
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