My Montessori trainer, Baiba Grazzini, spoke of this in pedagogical terms as giving children “x-ray eyes” to see through the mind’s eye, for example, dead civilizations or the very minuscule. … As we walked through old oaks along Buttermilk Creek, just north of Austin, and heard about the history of the digsite … this power of imagination was clearly displayed. I was impressed by the depth of questions and the knowledge that these Montessori elementary children brought to the experience.