Before he considered a run for president, before his breakthrough speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, before his 36-year career in brain surgery, Ben Carson was a skinny kid in southwest Detroit with failing grades, a quick temper and one resourceful mother.
"My mother was so disappointed that I was a poor student, that she didn't know what to do. She prayed to God for wisdom," Carson said last week at a scholarship banquet in Battle Creek. "And he gave it to her: to turn off the TV and make us read books."
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