What is development?

What is Development

Introduction

While almost every person is in favour of development , not many people could easily or quickly specify what development is . The term itself evokes in mind the association with a growing fullness of human existence , the development of potential powers , and constant tendency in the direction of perfection and excellence . Thus , development can be defined as a natural process , closely associated with progress and movement towards better things

Main Body

Human beings are not perfect , but they are always on the way to become excellent

in all respects . Each generation since the human race appeared has members that are much better than their forefathers . Development thus , can be called as a process upwards ' - the growth of human possibilities . Development allows people rise from the lowest to the highest , enabling them , at the same time , to determine at each stage of their development how much is achieved

Development may be compared and contrasted with simple growth of living plant . Consider , for example , a seed . It contains within it some possibilities of development . In the appropriate soil and under good conditions its development will follow normal stages of growth , and this seed will develop into the perfect , beautiful flower . What is true of this seed is true of the child at birth . Both for a plant and human being there is normal development , a possibility of full and perfect progress . However , there is one difference . The flower may become perfect at the expense of the neighbouring plants...