Human Development

Human development may refer to:

  • Human development (biology), the process of a human becoming biologically mature
  • Developmental psychology, also known as human development
  • Human development (humanity), as it relates to economics and standards of living
  • Human Development Index, an index used to rank countries by level of human development

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or development:

    “As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”
    —Václav Havel (b. 1936)

    “Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children more malleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”
    —Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)