Nah Mace was wrong and Anakin told him the principles they told him to uphold when it came to him, and he said yeah but fukk that shyt. They had no priniples in the end, mainly because Palpatine had played them so thoroughly. They were just struggling to survive.
The fact that they never realized Anakin was different than their usual apprentacies tells you the Jedi's stupidity. He was a slave, he had a mother, you aren't going to make a little boy forget about his mother. You aren't going to make a man forget about his wife and not do whatever it takes for his wife and child. The kid had a strong premonition via the force and the only two people who gave a damn about him was Obi, who they seperated him from, and Palpatine.
They were outdated idiots, Palpatine wuldn't have even been discovered if it wasn't for Anakin.