Washington, a freed slave who walked 500 miles from the mines of West Virginia to study at Hampton, who argued that these colleges should focusonteaching blacks skilled trades and vocations.
And armed with this information, teachers can get what amounts to a game tape that they can study to enhance their teaching and their focuson areas where students need help the most.
He further emphasized that globalization certainly provides many tools but we should not forget to focuson the contents of these tools and the teaching of the humanities is central in this respect in order to help develop critical thinking amongst youth.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Nasuwt say the reverse is true, that by not doing routine tasks such as photocopying or having "unacceptable levels of meetings", teachers can focus more onteaching and learning.
As we continue to pour billions of dollars into a failing education system that seeks to advance teaching methodologies, it is time we flipped the model on its head and used technology to focuson our learners.