TY - JOUR
AU - TORRANCE, E. PAUL
AB -  In discussing my studies of creative talent, I have occasionally quoted Plato’s famous statement that “what is honored in a country will be cultivated there” (Torrance, 1963, 1965). This has evoked two kinds of responses among the studies’ critics. One group has contended that Plato’s statement may have relevance for the motivation of certain kinds of achievement but not for creative achievement, since, they maintain, creative achievement emerges only in response to efforts to suppress and discourage it. The other group has been willing to accept Plato’s statement as relevant to creative achievement, but they have wanted empirical “proof” that specific ways of honoring creative talent are correlated to creative functioning and achievement. This article presents data from studies of the relationship between the level of creative functioning in eleven cultures and the extent to which each culture values creative achievement as indicated by adult encouragement-discouragement behavior and the availability of occupational outlets for creative activity. SUBJECTS The basic plan of the study called for the administration of a battery of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (Torrance, 1966) to children from grades one through six in each of eleven cultures or subcultures. In each comparison group, from 
TI - What is Honored: Comparative Studies of Creative Achievement and Motivation *
JF - The Journal of Creative Behavior
DO - 10.1002/j.2162-6057.1969.tb00122.x
DA - 1969-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/what-is-honored-comparative-studies-of-creative-achievement-and-pV5eYHgdsO
SP - 149
VL - 3
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -