Nairobi, Feb. 17 -- It is a fact that brain development and human behaviour can be changed forever by the things we do, or don't do, as most of a year without schooling is demonstrating vividly for our children.
For sure, that so many have now failed their school tests when probably a majority had no Internet access and almost no schooling in 2020, can come as no surprise. The catching up is there to do.
But it's also a reality that the younger minds are stimulated, the more they wire-up for more complex challenges. Leave them to fall intellectually idle and the development simply slows down, leaving kids with a permanent deficit on where they would have been.
That's not quite so bad if action is taken straight away, with many studies av...