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What's the Danger of Teaching Children to Be Anything?

Republican Kevin McCarthy has finally won the vote to become speaker. But it took him not one not two but 15 attempts 15 rounds of voting before he persuaded the more hardline Republicans to support him. It is an extraordinary kind of person who can take 15 rejections and keep trying. He's the little train that could if it was the little train who shouldn't have. This is the danger of teaching children they can be anything if they just keep trying.

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