Star Wars Episode 3

[Armin]

why didn't they just say "Anakin killed all the padawans!"  Thats what they were! 
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Um, no I think if I remember correctly a padawan is pretty much the same to a Jedi Knight as a knave was to a classical medieval Knight. The stage of a Jedi-in-training when he/she is assigned to learn under a specific tutor as an apprentice.

The younglings are then something like the "Jedi elementary school" or "Jedi Kindergarten", the stage where they are still too young to accompany their masters on travels and misions and are still being tutored in classes and group lessons, as we see Yoda do in Ep.2.

Which also, btw. explains why Obi Wan tells Luke that Yoda was also his teacher, while we all know that Obi was Qui Gon's padawan.

Basically "youngling" is thus just as much a "rank" as padawan, Jedi Knight and Jedi Master :rolleyes:

Btw.: I DID enjoy the film a lot, despite the unsolvable dilemma that Lucas had to tell the reasons for Anakins downfall in terms that today's 10-years olds are able to grasp, while 1977's 10-year olds (aka me :P ) are also still in the theatre (and would probably like to see a bit less oversimplistic, cheesy psychology)