We are raising bookworms who are socially, emotionally stunted

While the focus in the education sector for the last couple of weeks has been the bullying tragedy in one of Kenya's top schools, my personal interactions have drawn me towards another calamity in public boarding schools.

While it may not make headlines because it comes bloodless and has no clearly discernible victims, it nevertheless has the same potential of destroying a generation of young people. My attention was drawn to this disaster after interactions with several schools in the last month which left me convinced me that while we may think we are placing our youngsters on the road to success, we are sacrificing much of their youth on the altar of defective success.