Contrast between Tom sawyer and Huck Finn

"I divide the world into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner."-Benjamin Barber. Could one say that Huck Finn in, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is a "learner"? It's not coincidence that Huck, a lower-class uneducated adolescent, bares more education on life and happiness than that of Tom Sawyer, an upper class educated adolescent. Tom Sawyer may be educated, but the question to ask is has he learned anything useful from it? Tom is revealed as a "nonlearner" throughout the novel. This conclusion insinuates that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are merely complete opposites. One can clearly make the conclu...