In this passage “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark,” the author ‘Gary Blackwood’ demonstrates a value of education. In the passage, the boy learns valuable lessons from his family members. The young boys point of view changes over the course of the story regarding his family’s lack of education. In paragraph twenty-five Noah’s son says that there are two types of education. The author put this statement in there to describe that not everything has to be scientific or mathematic, that now and again it’s good to have general knowledge or (common sense). The reason the Noah’s son says this is because his family doesn’t have a good academic education. The have a general knowledge education which in this case helped them out. Their knowledge told