<p>This study the extent to which Brazilian elementary school teachers were able to discriminate between high and low creative pupils was investigated. The sample was 791 fourth- and fifth-grade pupils from Brasilia. D.F., who took the Tor­rance Test of Creative Thinking — figural and verbal — in the second-semester, 1972. The results showed no significant relationship between the teacher’s evaluation of the pupils’ creativity and the pupils’ performance on the creativity tests. These results might be explained by the neglect on the part of Brazilian teachers to develop the chil­dren’s divergent thinking abilities.</p>