He visited Montenegro during the festival “Open days of science”, where he gave lectures and held workshops in Podgorica and Niksic for students of elementary schools and teachers of Montenegrin high schools.
Farber said in an interview to Pobjeda that real science is nothing else but freedom and that it’s very important to motivate children to find answers in life by themselves, because that is the only way they will give the proper work out to their brains and acquire knowledge that will make them free men.
“I think you need to be more open minded, need to have more practical knowledge and to abandon traditional styles of teaching, because the world around us is changing and it’s impossible for education to remain the same”, said Farber.
In his work with children he combines sport, music and other creative ways to make the science more comprehensive.
„Israel has made a big leap from basically nothing, from a desert to practically a heaven when it comes to economy, science, culture and many other aspects. There is something in the spirit of Israelis that is very innovative, that has the need to expand, to try out new possibilities, to be always better especially when we consider our hostile environment. If it wasn’t like that, we would be dust a long time ago We also have something else, we call it hutsba. It is a hebrew word which means “to believe in yourself no matter what other people think”. I think that your country also needs this sort of “vitamin pill”, he said.
