Pitching D to academia

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d]

Motivated by Dmitry's "Pitching D to a gang of Gophers" thread, how 
about pitching it to a gang of professors and graduate students?

I will be presenting D to such an audience at METU in Ankara. What are 
the points that you would stress? I am thinking that they would be 
interested more in whether D is better as a teaching tool. Do you agree?

Ali