Now that we have the missing page…!

Tinslet and Kaestle say,”We can group the purposes of reading under five headings: pleasure or escape; day-to-day information; economic or spiritual self improvment; cultural promotion of dominant or minority cultures; and critical understanding and dissent.”  They also point out that a single text can qualify under more than one of these categories. Later on, Tinslet and Kaestle state that,”…assimilative and critical reading combine to shape indiviuals’ social values, cultural identity, and political understanding…”

It is useful to comphrend the significance of reading texts that are meant to be pedagogical, but what does one miss out on if you are to focus solely on the texts that fall under the last two categories that Tinsley and Kaestle mention? Can you just rely on yhr “pleasure or escapist and day to day information” and be successful in college?

In essence, my questions is this: Can a person be successful without all aspects of Tinsley and Kaestle’s headings? Consider the social, emtional and functional  shortcomings of each.