Learning to read the text

Chris Erdman wonders if the church can't take a lesson from the synagogue, where members are systematically taught how to read the text:

There is a catechesis that is inevitable. Communities catechized in how to read their texts have a better chance of avoiding the pitfalls of the hidden and subtle catechesis of the cultures that form them often in ways opposed to what their texts urge upon them. Communities are often well-schooled in being consumers or nationalists, for example, and are therefore terribly susceptible to reading the Bible poorly.

Too true.