ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the cultivation of creativity, since it is concerned with professional training. The principal responsibility for professional preparation and hence for the cultivation of creativity will presumably lie with graduate departments of universities. The examples of creativity enable the people to pose our present problem in fundamental terms. How can the people strengthen the probability that future questions will be approached with the balance between innovation and realism that characterizes high-level creativity? A group of the kind performs an important critical function since it knows enough history to help distinguish purported novelty from actual innovation and hence to aid in identifying creativity when it occurs. A professional group is always somewhat vulnerable to attack, and there are persuasive grounds for asserting that a preparatory experience of intensive exposure to older colleagues and to contemporaries is a valuable means of inducing integrity and solidarity.
