Yoda trains the younglings until the age of approximately 10-12.
Younglings are basically children selected by the Jedi for their Force potential.
After that, a Youngling is ready for Padawanship and is assigned to specific Jedi Knight/Master.
Once a Padawan passes their personal "Jedi trials", they recieve the rank of Jedi Knight and are able to take on a Padawan of their own, should they choose to.
It is understood that once a Knight has sucessfully guided a Padawan through the "trials", he himself is granted the rank of Master.
ROTS seems to conflict with this established structure a little, though, by implying that the Jedi Council simply chooses who is worthy of the rank of Master.
Only a Master can sit on the Jedi Council.
TPM era EU explained that Ki-Adi-Mundi was not a Master.
Needless to say, the EU was completely wrong...
Anakin is the first non-Master to take a seat with with the Council.
Originally posted by Fishy
People who finished training a Padawan are masters... But there is a difference between being a Master and being on the council
Absolutely.
I was just pointing out that Anakin did not think it was unreasonable that he be made a Master simply because he was now Palpatine's reprasentative on the Jedi Council - completely bypassing what we presume to be the established process.
The Council could quite easily have turned round and said "Not until you have trained a Padawan yourself - them's the rules." but they did not.
It kind of suggests that they may have been able to make Ani a Master if they really thought he was ready.
Perhaps not.
Originally posted by mossman
Master is a term of address to any senior Jedi, or from a non-Jedi to a Jedi etc.
It is not the same as being a Jedi Master...
That's correct because in AOTC in the scene with the younglings the kids said hello Master Obi-Wan. But Obi-Wan at the time was a Jedi Knight like Anakin was in ROTS.