Ben's Biography

                                                                       A biography of Ben Carson

 

Family & Early Life     

Benjamin Solomon Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 18, 1951 and he was the second son of Sonya and Robert Solomon Carson. Ben’s mother was raised in Tennessee in a very large family, she dropped out of school in the third grade. Ben’s relationship with his father was short lived, he loved his father, but unfortunately his father moved out when Ben was 8 years old. His father left as he was having an affair with another woman and he stole the family’s nest egg. When Ben was 8 his parents were divorced, after that the family was very poor. Sonya took on two or three jobs at a time in order to provide for her boys. She always taught her boys that anything was possible. Having his father leave, proved to be extremely difficult for his mother, Sonya suffered from depression and was admitted to a psychiatric ward. Not only did Ben lose his father, his mother also left for a short time and this significantly affected his schooling experiences.

  Schooling

     Ben went to South-Western High School and fell to the bottom of his class. He was teased and called ‘dummy’ by his classmates as he never knew the answers to the questions posed by the teacher. Ben's mother realized that he needed glasses. He started to read many books from the library, he tried his best at school and he succeeded in his schooling. He asked wisdom from God, and believed that God would answer him. After finishing high school, he went to Yale University, the Medical School of the University of Michigan, and he did his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.In a dispute with a classmate over a locker, he cut a three-inch gash in the other boy's head. However, at the age of 14, Carson reached a turning point after he nearly stabbed a friend to death because the boy had changed the radio station.Terrified by his own capacity for violence, he ran home and locked himself in the bathroom with the Bible. "I started praying," he said in his American Academy of Achievement interview, "and asking God to help me find a way to deal with this temper." Reading from the Book of Proverbs, he found numerous verses about anger, but the one that stood out to him was "Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city." After that, he realized he could control his anger, rather than it controlling him.

Achievements

 Ben became a successful neurosurgeon. He has received numerous honours and many awards over the years, including over 40 honorary doctorate degrees. He was also a member of the American Academy of Achievement He married with Sonya on July 6, 1975. They had three children. There were a pair of Siamese twins from Germany. These twins were joined at the back of the head. Twins like that had never both survive an operation. But, Ben Carson did an operation on the twins. He successfully separated them. He is inspiring, persevering, compassionate and gentle. He makes about 12 million dollars a year.