After being prompted by some of his fellow educators to write this book, "The Education of a Teacher: Lessons a Small Town Taught a Teacher" is a compilation of stories and incidents that helped shape the post educational life of the author, Noel Nation. It is a book that will make you laugh. There are stories here that will make you cry. With the current state of education, his incites given from what he learned over the years, will make you go, "Hmmm!"