The Crab and Its Mother

Fri April 20, 2012 by Kunal Bansal

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.