why use the pen tool over the lines, shapes, paintbrush, and pencil tools. 620054128

In my opinion and personal experience based on today's class (Feb 11 2013) the pen tool is much more accurate and easier to use than the other tools. it in a sense does the job of most of the such as the shapes and pencil tool in a much shorter space of time. Just like the line tool the pen tool can be used to draw line and it does them much quicker by just selecting a point then dragging and dropping it. Unlike the pencil tool when the illustrator has to trace the image free hand, the pencil tool makes it easier by simply making a point then another to make a straight line, or to make a curve you make a point then connecting it to another and rotating the anchor to make a curve.