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
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“I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life- outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)
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—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)