Eccentric People

What is the difference between innocence and ignorance?

Why is innocence acceptable and even admired in children but not in adults? Thanks for your answer.

Public Comments

1. the oversensitive adult can't take a jjoke, i soupose
2. nothing or anything you want, same with everything else
3. Innocence is sweet in children but it makes adults seem really naive. Innocence is being innocent and pure. In innocence you are free from guilt and sin through lack of knowledge of evil. Ignorance is being ignorant. When you are ignorant you show a lack of knowledge about something.
4. A child and an adult can each make the same biased remark about an individual, but the child's would more likely be innocent, whereas the adult's would be ignorant. The adult would be ignorant because he has had time to form his opinions, and chose to be misinformed rather than explore the truth.
5. innocence is when you don't know something because you're young and you're not supposed to know yet. ignorance is when you don't understand something that you should be mature enough to understand by now.
6. To me the answer is simple: Innocence is the lack of knowledge - very childlike Ignorance is the lack of capacity to absorb knowledge - whether intentional or not Some people cannot Learn - Some people never get the chance - Some people refuse to learn - and others are just rude!
7. Being innocent means not being jaded. Being ignorant means not being knowledgeable. I don't think that either is "unacceptable" in adults, but the difference is that children have not been around long enough to be either jaded or knowledgeable, while adults have.
8. It's innocence when it charms us. Ignorance when it doesn't.
9. “In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
10. innocence= not knowing ignorance= not wanting to know innocence is admired in children simply because adults have lost their innocence