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Pack Matthews

Pack Matthews

Inventor and founder of Ikaria Design Company in Columbia, Missouri, creator of the ergonomic Soul Seat and Fidget Seat products that promote active, movement-focused sitting.

Aug 18, 2026

56:18
when you say multi-age?
56:20
So I've taught the kindergarten through middle school is a great range.
56:27
Um, yeah, and, and maybe a preschool, you know, associated, so that kids could take, spend some time with the preschoolers.
56:35
But the, the research has shown that, um, and my own experience teaching in an urban one-room schoolhouse in Cambridge, Mass, once you don't do the monoculture anymore, you don't have the same kind of pests showing up, like bullying and, and who- if, if you have a monoculture in the classroom, the kids have to bully each other in order to differentiate themselves.
56:58
So, yeah, so we learn from, uh, from what gardeners, you know, gr- regeneration gardening knows, that you have as, a diverse a mix of plants together.
57:12
And so that's the way a school should be as well.
57:15
Um-
58:32
Um, well, what have children taught you about our human relationship to chairs that maybe you hadn't clued in with adults, if anything?

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