But, armed with her outlook, he was able to fight his way through many battles, including battles to control his own temper, as well as external obstacles. But what got him there was wholly different from what is being offered to many ghetto youths today, much of which is not merely futile, but counterproductive.By the time I first entered a predominantly white school, I had already caught up, and had no trouble with the school work. Virtually everything was against young Ben Carson, except for his mother’s attitudes and values. Ben Carson Jr., the middle son of 2016 GOP presidential candidate, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, came out in defense of his father Tuesday night telling supporters that his father is a honest man with "truth and pure intentions" on his side. Ben Carson has been no stranger to stirring controversy with his remarks, with scrutiny growing stronger this week surrounding his accounts of …
What was different was that he overcame those obstacles with the help of a truly heroic mother and the values she instilled in him.In the predominantly white school to which I later went, I was put in a class for children with IQs of 120 and up, and had no trouble competing with them. He began to think that he wanted to become a doctor.In many ways, the obstacles facing young Ben Carson were like those faced by so many other youngsters in the ghetto. (psychology). The shock of being in a school, whose standards were higher than I was able to meet at first, took place in an all-black school in Harlem, so that there was none of the additional complications that such an experience can have for a black youngster in a predominantly white school.Chance plays a large part in everyone’s life. His mother stood firmly in front of the television, feet planted on the ground, so he knew she was serious. But you don’t need parents with Ph.D.s to make sure that you make the most of your education.To me, it was a personal story in another sense, that some of his experiences as a youngster brought back experiences that I went through growing up in Harlem many years earlier.Virtually everything was against young Ben Carson, except for his mother’s attitudes and values.
The family’s attitude toward education and toward life can make all the difference.Today, Dr. Benjamin Carson is a renowned neurosurgeon at a renowned institution, Johns Hopkins University. Eventually, Ben Carson wife blessed his life with three beautiful sons. In 2013, Carson, his wife, and Carson's mother moved to West Palm Beach, Florida. And those sons became fruitful when they became parents of seven children in total.Today, Carson іѕ сrеdіtеd fоr dеvеlоріng nеw mеthоdѕ tо trеаt brаіn-ѕtеm tumоrѕ. Decades later, in the course of running a research project, I learned that the Harlem school, where I had so much trouble catching up, had an average IQ of 84 back when I was there.As young Ben’s school work began to catch up with that of his classmates, and then began to surpass that of his classmates, his whole view of himself and of the wider world around him began to change. I could understand all too well what it was like to be the lowest performing child in a class. And those sons became fruitful when they became parents of seven children in total. That was my situation in the fourth grade, after my family had moved up from the South, where I had been one of the best students in the third grade — but in a grossly inferior school system.Fortunately for him, his mother, whose own education went no further than the third grade, insisted that he was smart. She cut off the television set and made him and his brother hit the books — books that she herself could scarcely read.Now I sometimes found myself in tears because it was so hard to try to get through my homework.There were a lot of obstacles to overcome along the way, including the fact that his mother had to be away from time to time for psychiatric treatment, as she tried to cope with the heavy pressures of trying to raise two boys whose father had deserted the family that she now had to support on a maid’s wages.The kinds of things that statisticians can measure, such as family income or parents’ education, are not the crucial things. Yes, Ben Carson and his wife married on July 6, 1975, two years after Ben’s graduation from Yale in B.A. Ben Carson’s jaw dropped to the floor.