"Escape" Reading

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“One cannot help but observe the trend in modern schools to substitute light ‘escape’ reading for the more difficult classics. This practice is defended in the name of getting students to read.  …the purpose of learning is discovery, not escape. Reading serves this purpose. It is not just a basic skill… Substituting the literature of escape for the classics is not education, but an attack on learning; it is not intellectual, but anti-intellectual. It represents a capitulation to the adolescent appetites of our students and of our race.” (Norms and Nobility, p. 137)

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Published by Jeff Voegtlin

Dr. Jeff Voegtlin has been in Christian service for over twenty years. He is an associate pastor at Fairhaven Baptist Church in Chesterton, Indiana, and a Vice President of Fairhaven Baptist College. As conductor of the church and schools' orchestra program, and overseer of the educational program of the college, his teaching has helped to train hundreds of young adults to prepare for full-time ministry. After completing a bachelor's degree from Fairhaven Baptist College, he received a master's degree in Bible from Pensacola Christian College. In 2007, he completed the requirements to finish a doctor's degree in education from Bob Jones University. Dr. Voegtlin is available for seminars in instrumental and choral music practice and philosophy, for education seminars, and to preach and present the college ministry.

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  1. I believe this “escape” reading mentality of public school education fits a Satanic conspiracy to erode linear thought. Without the ability to consider Scripture (“give ear”), people can’t be saved. It reminds me of a workshop I attended almost ten years ago when we were still in the AACS. The workshop was with Carl Herbster and the theme was teaching Bible class. He said that Bible teachers should make it an easy class so that students can get a good grade, and, in so doing, the students would like the Bible.

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