The Crab and Its Mother
小蟹與母蟹
A CRAB said to her son, "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crab replied: "Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it." The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
Example is more powerful than precept.
母蟹對小蟹說:「你不要橫爬,為甚么不直著走?」他答道:「媽媽,請您親自教我怎樣直走,我將照著你的樣子走?!箍赡感犯静粫弊撸妒切⌒氛f她笨。
這個故事帶出的啟示就是:教育者自己必須正直地生活,正直地走,才能去教導(dǎo)別人。