His Inspiration

While Pavlov was attending the church school in his small village he learned to have a significance for Charles Darwin and Ivan Sechenov. He actually abandoned his studies in theology and went into science because he was so interested in the subject itself. So he left his little village and went off to the University of St Petersburg where he majored in natural studies. While attending this University he won a lot of respect for his professor of physiology, Cyon. Because of Cyon's enthusiasm teaching the class, he decided to be a physiologist during his third year at the University. Pavlov started work as an assistant in a laboratory in which he earned 50 rubles a month.