Peggy Noonan on the great unifying myths of America

The children of the new immigrants will get most of their sense of what America is from general culture and the public schools.  It is there that we must give special attention to communicating the great unifying myths that define the dreams, characteristics and special history of America and that even to this day bind us together.  If we communicate the stories and celebrations that tell us who we are, then, in the year 2030 or ’40 or ’50, America will still be America.

~ Peggy Noonan, “What Americans Need to Know,” November 21, 1990