Dr. Ben Carson

Ben Carson had a rough start in a Detroit ghetto where he says he was the ‘class dummy’ in fifth grade. His mother insisted that he work harder and read more. His parents had marital problems and his mother even attempted suicide as she suffered from depression. Yet Ben persevered.  In time he won a Yale University scholarship. Then he became a world-renowned paediatric neurosurgeon at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital. He started giving monthly inspirational talks to young people. ‘You become a valuable person because of the knowledge that you have’ he used to tell young people. ‘And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.’ In 2008, Ben Carson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in 2016 he ran for President of the USA, and in March 2017, he was made the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.