Carson’s book, “Gifted Hands” should be required reading in all American schools. His mother was illiterate. Noticing all the reading material in the homes where she cleaned, she cut off TV for her sons until they read two books a week and wrote reports on each. The rest, as the saying goes, is history. I wish him well.
My dad, a WWII vet who passed 2 years ago, was not a book reader. In fact he often joked about how it must be a requirement to get a job on Fox News that you write a book. But someone gave him a copy of “Gifted Hands” and he read it cover to cover. He was highly impressed and I know he would have been very proud to see Dr. Carson in a leadership role in our government.
Read that book. It would be great for children to read and understand since Ben Carson had a destructive “worldview” (one which would have been nihilistic and ended in unhappiness) which changed to the Christian paradigm of Hope and Love (forgiveness) (unity).
As Milton stated, “The Mind can make a Heaven, Hell, or Hell, Heaven. It is all in the Mind to understand Good and Evil-—and always choose (free will) the “good” if you desire happiness and flourishing. Free Will is only a Chrsitian concept and only Classical Christian curricula gives people the Power to use their OWN mind (ability to think outside the State’s programming indoctrination system which is the “publik skools” of today).
The Cultural Marxists intentionally destroyed America’s “skools” so that they would produce (as Fichte planned in 1810)—people incapable of “Free Will” and being so dumb and irrational (removed from Reality (Natural Law/family)) that they would believe “Snow is Black”.
They stripped curricula from teaching children “agency” (Classical Christian curricula which created the Age of Reason, Modern Science and the US Constitution). They made most children into ideologues (Marxists/atheists/satanists—all irrational and removed from Natural Laws) and having the ability to “think” for themselves. It is on purpose (unconstitutional) and TV programming forces the brain to literally atrophy. Only “reading” creates agency and wisdom along with MOSTLY unstructured Real Life experiences, the knowledge needed to “think” coherently and critically and be able to truly understand human beings in Reality (real life human interactions—not artificial, controlled “screen” time).
Read Booker T. Washigton’s autobiography, “Up from Slavery”. His story is much more dramatic and remarkable than even the incredible life of Carson. Both should be REQUIRED READING in any true “educational” system. But Classical Christian curricula is literally banned (for satanism/paganism/islam), because it is the ONLY true education system which literally gives children the ability to “think” critically. Carson is brilliant because he read the Great Books, including the wisest book in history (the Holy Bible). His mind was integrated and filled with the best, most virtuous, complex “thinking” in the history of mankind.
The public school system programs irrationality and “vice is virtue” into young children to destroy virtue formation (habits) in the minds of little children, so they are incapable of wisdom and knowledge and “free will”—thinking critically for themselves like a Ben Carson.
Vice creates slaves for the State and corporations always. Without virtue formation in children, there is no Freedom ever !!!! That is why all the Marxist programming (skools/TV/Movies/Music) (allowed by our “Just” laws (lol) and TV is to normalize vice and warp the Natural instincts and “thinking” of our children by promoting vice and irrationality (artificiality removed from Reason/Natural Laws (Western Civ)) 24/7. Common Sense (the ideas of Founders) would be impossible for brainwashed, warped children removed from their Natural Family (mother/father paradigm) and put into artificial systems of “group-think sexist systems”, very much like the tribal cultures of the Ancient world and irrational islamic tribal cultures with their vile boy harem behaviors and concepts of “motherhood”. Only Christianity elevated women and Natural Laws (Reason/Individuality/Free Will).