ABSTRACT
A seedling develops into a full-grown plant, an embryo develops into an independent living animal, a child develops into a man. The original state must be in some sense generative of subsequent ones, even if the generation still depends on the satisfaction of other conditions. When children are said to be, say, intellectually, emotionally or morally immature or undeveloped, one has the sense of there being involved a moral judgment, in a way that is not so of the statement that someone is physically immature or undeveloped. Education has little to do with development except as something that may make it possible by providing the right conditions, just as physical education may provide some of the right conditions for physical development.
