Jules Payot

thumb|right|Jules Payot Jules Payot (1859-1939) was a French educationist. Quotes The Education of the Will (1920) L'éducation de la volonté, as translated by S. Jelliffe In undertaking the conquest of self it is of the utmost importance to form strong bonds of habit between ideas and conduct. p. 100 It is necessary, therefore, if we would weld an idea solidly and indestructibly to a desired action, that we should fuse them together by the heat of an emotion. p. 100 If the miser reaches the point of sacrificing his health, his pleasures, and even his very honesty for the love of his money, shall we not succeed in learning to love so noble an aim as intellectual work sufficiently to make us sacrifice our laziness for a few hours every day? ... Should not our young people therefore spend at least five hours a day at their work-table in order to assure for themselves, both now and in the future, the manifold joys of intellectual culture? p. 110 The majority of men ... never turn their attention from the outside world to examine themselves. ... They go through life drawn hither and thither by outside happenings, with scarcely any originality, or without any more control of their direction than have the leaves which are whirled about by the autumn wind. pp. 146-147 External links Category:Educators from France Category:1859 births Category:1939 deaths