Unlike other ancient texts such as Mencius, Confucius's Analects, or Zhuangzi--which contains over 180 allegorical stories--Laozi is written in an "aphoristic" style. In the children's classics-reading classes which have recently become popular, Laozi is almost always the book which the children learn by heart most quickly and recite most smoothly.
比起《論語》、《孟子》，與有一百八十多個寓言故事的《莊子》，老子「格言式」的體例，在近來興起的兒童讀經班，幾乎是小朋友最快朗朗上口背完全書的一本。