Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
Also, the biggest mistake people have been pointing out is not sticking to their guns and training Anakin as a Jedi. Their first impressions about him were exactly correct.
I would certainly hope the intent was not for the ten-year old to be a completely lost cause because he's angry about having been born into slavery and having had to leave his mom behind.

Quote Originally Posted by Infernally Clay View Post
I was the one who raised the point that the Jedi Council should have treated Anakin as a regular Jedi recruit, making him a youngling instead of a padawan so that he spent the next six years building those bonds and that feeling of belonging and earned his promotion to padawan, but guess what? That was shot down too.
Functionally, what you are suggesting is tossing a third grader into kindergarden, and the problems with that idea require no explanation.