伊索寓言：小蟹與母蟹（The Crab and Its Mother ）

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?，於是小蟹說她笨。

　　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，才能去教導別人。