Are children truly as intelligent as suggested before societal influences affect them?

According to Osho, children embody pure, uncontaminated intelligence—an open, questioning awareness—until society hurriedly brands, conditions, and domesticates them. Parents, schools, and authorities fear intelligence because it rebels, doubts, and resists domination; thus they replace inquiry with belief and dependence. Real trust, he says, is born through doubt, not against it; protecting children’s innate intelligence preserves freedom and authentic growth.