I think it's not so simple, because content always has to be interpreted. You can ignore parts of the content, it can go over your head, you can subliminally pick up on them, you can dismiss them outright, you can include them as part of your worldview, and very often you can misinterpret it entirely according to your worldview (or whatever). But it's not just a one-way interaction, and how you receive something is gonna depend a lot on what's going on in your head already at that time.

Or you could just go with the 'father of neoconservatism', Irving Kristol, and say:

"After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that."