"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." We often require children to follow blindly for their own safety--at puberty, as you point out, they rebel and leave the safety of blind following. It does not make the blind following wrong; it is suitable for specific times.

Also, as a little aside--do you know that pain in childbirth comes from the knowledge of good and evil? When our ancestors' frontal lobe expanded rapidly--the birth canal was too small to accommodate it.