Is the innocence of small children just ignorance, or does it have value?

According to Osho, a child’s innocence is really ignorance—natural, spontaneous, and even more valuable than the heavy knowledge of the learned—but it isn’t the true innocence of awakening. Real innocence comes after second birth: passing through learning, recognizing its limits, and consciously dropping borrowed knowledge through awareness. Then innocence becomes mature, incorruptible, and capable of knowing the absolute; this is the sage’s earned purity.