JediZombie said:

Yoda instructed Luke one on one because Luke was the only one. In the PT era there were several Force sensitive children, therefore Yoda instructed several at once. All we get to see in the films is Yoda teaching a lightsaber 101 class. I'm sure he taught others that would've looked more like what he taught Luke. And I'm equally sure other masters taught children before they were assigned a master. I see no problem with this.

I for one thing think the whole sequence of a bunch of little kids mimicking Luke's improvised lesson was deliriously awful.

Luke has plenty of room and the droid thing is flying around him so he has to stay put and anticipate where the blasts are coming from. It's a good test for a young adult novice. I always got the impression that the seeker was something Han had for target practice. We don't see Ben with anything noticeable in the way of luggage and he borrows the helmet from Han's shelf so why not the seeker as well?

Yoda, (the powerful Jedi master from the good sequel that preached that reliance on weapons was a weakness and that conquering your own fear through the power of the mind was the key to solving your problems) well... they put him in charge of a bunch of toddlers with deadly glow sticks too close together for my comfort. Deflecting stinging blasts from flying robot things like a... like a very dangerous space pinata party.

Talk about deflating the dignity of the character, if sitting on a flying loo like the bleeding Mekon wasn't bad enough.