One of the definitions for the word tool is “anything that serves as a means: as, books are a scholar’s tools“. (Webster’s dictionary) The primary definition of tool identifies it as an implement or instrument used for work. In considering these two definitions one can ask, “If the work of a child’s (or a person’s) life is to learn, then how will that occur?”. In other words, what are the tools of learning? Whatever these tools are, they will be instruments to do the work