The author of “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” demonstrates the value of education by showing how bad the family’s lack of education is throughout the story. The narrator showed the reader how his family’s lack of education changes over the course of the story by showing how their education was getting better as the story went on. Toward the end of the story he felt that he was more educated and showed how thankful he was for the education that he and his family have and that there is more than one kind of education.

Throughout the story the narrator shows his family’s lack of education. It shows how poorly educated the narrator’s parents actually are as you read the story. They don’t know how to use proper grammar when they speak.