sharpest tool in the shed

Are we tools or are we tool users? I can say i do know some tools (ha) but I believe that we are both depending on the situation. Sometimes we, as people, are subject to be used as tools in the sense that teachers are tools used by the school to educate students. Nurses are tools utilized by a medical hospital to aide patients recover from their illness. The same sense goes back to us being tool users - we utilize tools given to us to increase the effectiveness of our message. We can capitalize on the tools given to us as teachers, such as technology, behavior management, etc, just as we are being capitalized on administration for basically the same exact purposes.