Benjamin Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan. His mother Sonya had
dropped out of school in the third grade, and married when she was only
13. When Benjamin Carson was only eight, his parents divorced, and Mrs.
Carson was left to raise Benjamin and his older brother Curtis on her
own. She worked at two, sometimes three, jobs at a time to provide for
her boys.
Benjamin and his brother fell farther and farther behind in school. In
fifth grade, Carson was at the bottom of his class. His classmates
called him "dummy" and he developed a violent, uncontrollable temper.
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Within a few weeks, Carson astonished his classmates by identifying rock
samples his teacher had brought to class. He recognized them from one
of the books he had read. "It was at that moment that I realized I
wasn't stupid," he recalled later. Carson continued to amaze his
classmates with his newfound knowledge and within a year he was at the
top of his class.
The hunger for knowledge had taken hold of him, and he began to read
voraciously on all subjects. He determined to become a physician, and
he learned to control the violent temper that stillContinue here...
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