A little more than 100 years ago, the "Oakland Enquirer" reported favorably on a lecture Montessori delivered to 6,000 National Education Association attendees: "Her speech was pregnant with the possibilities for future education…" (America's First Impressions, p.113). In her lecture, Montessori credited her method of education for offering "easy and spontaneous solutions of pedagogical problems considered impossible to solve" (America's First Impressions, p. 118). Perhaps this assertion was an overstatement. However, the prescience of her words and the Enquirer's becomes evident when one looks at current education trends. In this article, several points of Montessori's philosophy are explained, in particular forward-thinking ideas that have yet to be incorporated into education and society.