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:

    “The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “Information about child development enhances parents’ capacity to respond appropriately to their children. Informed parents are better equipped to problem-solve, more confident of their decisions, and more likely to respond sensitively to their children’s developmental needs.”
    —L. P. Wandersman (20th century)