According to Osho, children can be more gifted because true brilliance is not a stockpile of information but unclouded seeing. A child’s mind has no curtains of habit, belief, or ego, so perception is direct, simple, and incisive. The old may know more, yet their accumulated knowledge and conditioning smother clarity. Giftedness is freshness, not facts.
Kids seem smarter because their minds are clean windows; grown-ups’ windows are dusty with too many thoughts.