Maturation is the natural unfolding of inherited tendencies. Maturity is when one can take care of himself . Maturation does not function in isolation.

Maturation and learning are closely interrelated in the growth and development process. One could speak, write, sing , and perform a host of activities not by mere maturation , but by a conscious deliberate , purposeful, goal-directed behaviour known  as ‘Learning’. While Maturation emphasises the influence of variables that are internal to the environmental conditions- internal as well as external. Maturation paves a way for learning.

No amount of teaching or exercise will enable a six month old baby to talk or walk . It is also equally true that the child does learn the language just because he attains that stage, or age ,unless the language is a taught to him. the language which he learns is that which he hears. We may give the results of a few studies to show the importance of maturation in the race as well as with individual and limitation of exercise and learning.

Kellog and Kellog reared an infant boy and an infant chimpanzee in the same human environment .They treated them both with the same affection and tenderness. Their aim was to see to what extent the chimpanzee could be humanized by the human environment . The boy was two months older than the chimpanzee. Still the chimpanzee   was able to learn to skip, open doors, to eat with a spoon, to drink from a glass , earlier than the boy . This was because the chimpanzee, though two months younger than the boy, was physically more mature. However the chimpanzee reached the upper limit of its maturity much faster then the boy could reach the upper level of human maturity. By the 15th month of age the boy surpassed the chimpanzee in almost everything expect in boy strength.

The experienced was terminated when the boy was 19 months old . The chimpanzee, though of an inferior species, was superior to the human child in certain respects. This superiority was due to the earlier maturity of the chimpanzee . On the other hand , the boy, even with his relative immaturity , was able to learn to speak, to imitate and to solve the a number of problems which the chimpanzee could and even though the training given to the two was the same . From , the stand point of evolution, the human being is more mature then the chimpanzee , so that the human child very soon becomes superior in learning ability to the most mature ape.

Forcing the child to attempt to learn some speech , writing or other activities before a certain maturation has occurred , can disrupt the normal development in the child .Learning and maturation go hand in hand like growth and development. Physical and psychological skills can be learned only if there is proper maturation. If forced, there might be some damaged.