要約問題/1980年

　次の文の要旨を50字から70字の日本文で書け。ただし句読点も字数にかぞえる。

　A child is most intelligent when the reality before him arouses in him a high degree of attention, interest, concentration, involvement --- in short, when he cares most about what he is doing. This is why we should make schoolrooms and schoolwork as interesting and exciting as possible, not just so that school will be a pleasant place, but so that children in school will act intelligently and get into the habit of acting intelligently. The case against boredom in school is the same as the case against fear; it makes children behave stupidly, some of them on purpose, most of them because they cannot help it. If this goes on long enough, as it does in school, they forget what it is like to grasp at something, as they once grasped at everything, with all their minds and senses; they forget how to deal positively and aggressively with life and experience, to think and say, "I see it! I get it! I can do it!"