14 Important Things To Know About Dr. Ben Carson

By R. Brownell

14. He grew up in abject poverty in Detroit with a mother who couldn’t read

10968313_429245017241970_3404537475896916234_nGrowing up with one brother and a single mother, who worked multiple jobs at once, living in Detroit exposed Carson to the worst aspects of the inner city of Detroit. Praying and working to give her sons both a better future, Carson’s mother, who was illiterate, forced both of her children to pick a book from the local library and give her a weekly book report to prove they read and learned something new (she would pretend to mark up the paper and then tell them to do better regardless).

This involved parenting created a love of books within her children, who began to take their schooling seriously as they found that education was the only way to improve their standard of living. Carson’s talent for being a fast learner would prove itself later when he would graduate from Yale and the University of Michigan School of Medicine, leading him on the path to eventually becoming one of the most famous neurosurgeons in the world.

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