Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
How is that supposed to help him? They can't turn him back to an infant to grow up in the Jedi Order. The other children aren't going to just magically integrate him.

Maybe more to the point, we don't ever actually see the Jedi ostracize Anakin in the way you describe. They promote him to Knight because he met the qualifications. They don't promote him to Master because he doesn't meet the qualifications, just like every other Jedi. By all appearances they go out of their way to give him every chance possible.
Who said anything about turning him into an infant? If younglings typically undergo around ten or eleven years of Jedi School before they become padawans, why not just put him in the fifth year with other eight year olds? He'd have to do some catching up, sure, but given his natural talent with the Force it's not like it'd be particularly difficult for him to do. You really don't believe putting Anakin in a classroom with children his own age would help him fit in? You honestly believe making an eight year old kid a padawan when you aren't s'posed to become a padawan until you're thirteen or fourteen was the right thing to do?

Also, as I already said, they didn't promote Anakin to Knight because he met the qualifications because there no qualifications to meet. Under normal circumstances your Jedi master tells the Council they believe you're ready for the Trials and if you complete them you become a Knight. Anakin never underwent the Trials. When the war broke out he and many other padawans were promoted to Knights to fill out the Order's ranks. They didn't need padawan learners they needed generals for the Grand Army of the Republic.

As for whether or not Anakin deserved to be promoted to Master, they refused him the position in the most humiliating way possible and then asked him to spy on Palpatine for them. If you can't even appreciate how tone-deaf that is...