The terms "growth" and
"development" are often used interchangeably .In reality ,they are
different ,though they are inseparable ; neither takes place alone .Growth
refers to quantitative changes increases in size and structure .While
talking about children, their growth is when
they increase in size and structure and also physically larger. Likely the
growth of brain results in greater capacity of learning for remembering and for
reasoning. Which accounts for mental growth . Therefore we can safely say that
growth is physical as well as mental.
Development, by contrast , refers to qualitative and
quantitative changes. It may be defined
as a progressive series of orderly, coherent changes . Progressive signifies that
the changes are directional, that they lead forward than backward. Orderly and
coherently suggest that there is a definite relationship between the changes
taking place and those that preceeded or will follow them.
