ry young child" which marks creative endeavor as described by Gardner. To deny the child such creative encouragement, society sets up a situation in which that child will be tempted by drugs to ease the pain of low self-worth. The denial of creative encouragement is, therefore, akin to the denial of enough food or adequate education or physical security.
Gardner says there are three relationships crucial to creativity: "The relationship between the child and the master; the relationship between an individual and the work in which he or she is engaged; and the relationship between an individual and other persons in his or her world" (Gardner, 1993, p. 8). Two of these relationships are based on the importance of a nurturing of the "child" in the creative individual by other individuals. Again, without such nurturing, the creativity of the individual is nullified or stunted, leading to low self-worth, drugs, and other non-creative or anti-creative behavior. All of the seven creators in the study experienced such nurturing at crucial points in their personal develo
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