The Crab and Its Mother_英语寓言故事

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.