No, no school! No more training Jedis! I just don't think they are good at it. Broom-boy is way better off on his own.
Okay, I've had a few thoughts about this. For the most part I agree: Broom-boy can learn what to do with his Force-abilities, for better or worse, on his own. But there's a very tiny category of young Force-users who could be a danger to others, and whose families aren't equiped to deal with that. Imagine if young Rey seeing her parents leave had had access to the powers she learned later: she could have blown up a ship then. A young child with the ability to do Jedi mind tricks could wreak havoc on a whole community. (There's a short story by Ray Bradbury about something similar... at least, I think that was the author. No matter, though.)
Anyway! I don't know that Rey needs to be the person to take charge of a group of potentially dangerous children. I don't think that "the Jedi way*" is necessarily a good fit for those children, either. It certainly wasn't for Anakin. But I do think that something should be available for those very few children, to protect both others and them. Protecting others for the obvious dangers, protecting the children themselves because they could be desirable as weapons to the wrong people.
*The Jedi have this weird role in the films. My analogy is that they're like the Knights Templar: both a religious and military order. Anakin didn't need to be a space monk soldier; he needed connections, not "voluntary" priestly celibacy. And coming from a pro-Anakin point of view: what were his options as a child? He was freed, but his mother wasn't; he was still a child. The Jedi were the only group available, and even they didn't really want him; Qui-Gon did, and Obi-Wan took over to honor his mentor. But poor Anakin was in an impossible situation.
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Okay, I've had a few thoughts about this. For the most part I agree: Broom-boy can learn what to do with his Force-abilities, for better or worse, on his own. But there's a very tiny category of young Force-users who could be a danger to others, and whose families aren't equiped to deal with that. Imagine if young Rey seeing her parents leave had had access to the powers she learned later: she could have blown up a ship then. A young child with the ability to do Jedi mind tricks could wreak havoc on a whole community. (There's a short story by Ray Bradbury about something similar... at least, I think that was the author. No matter, though.)
Anyway! I don't know that Rey needs to be the person to take charge of a group of potentially dangerous children. I don't think that "the Jedi way*" is necessarily a good fit for those children, either. It certainly wasn't for Anakin. But I do think that something should be available for those very few children, to protect both others and them. Protecting others for the obvious dangers, protecting the children themselves because they could be desirable as weapons to the wrong people.
*The Jedi have this weird role in the films. My analogy is that they're like the Knights Templar: both a religious and military order. Anakin didn't need to be a space monk soldier; he needed connections, not "voluntary" priestly celibacy. And coming from a pro-Anakin point of view: what were his options as a child? He was freed, but his mother wasn't; he was still a child. The Jedi were the only group available, and even they didn't really want him; Qui-Gon did, and Obi-Wan took over to honor his mentor. But poor Anakin was in an impossible situation.