Jeffrey W. Miller wrote:
 >>  How can Twain's value in a classroom be articulated for the
student/principal/school board/concerned parent(s)?  <<

    Not to be contentious, but to be Twainiacish:

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made
School Boards."
- /MT - Following the Equator/; Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

Harold