Catalysts are chemical agents that speed up chemical reactions but in the end remain unchanged. Instead a co-creation of knowledge requires the abolishment of ageism from the school system to promote the potential of progress over the repetition of regression.

We should adapt as the students adopt the country. The false dichotomy created between pedagogy and andragogy perpetuates a system of  separating the learner from instructor based on age rather than experience. If adults, teachers and elders, are able to embrace the potential students offer rather than address merely the demands of productivity. The assumptions of andragogy are a more accurate representation of how facilitation of learning should occur for both children and adults.

Imagination and innovation can require massive investments of time without a single artifact made. Depending on the size of the problem, hours, days, years, may pass with not a pixel placed or a letter typed. It remains all in the mind until it just pours out in a stream. 

Compare the effort it takes to set up dominoes. The time is spent establishing the potential energy. Then, tip the first domino and watch the show. The trainer steps back but even the learner steps out of their own way. As a true catalyst, trainers, instructors, teachers and students all, tip the first domino and the potential does the rest.