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On many levels, perhaps they should have disciplined Anakin more for the stunts he pulled. He was representing the Order and may have cast a bad light on it, but consider the following three points.

1- Many of the impulsive things he did may have been wrong only in the eyes of the Jedi, not the general public. And often, they resulted in the greater good. His methods were just rash and skewed.

2- How many folks in the general population knew how a Jedi was supposed to act? They were untouchable and the stuff of legend to many people. When those people saw a Jedi do something, right or wrong, they may have been too overwhelmed by seeing the Jedi, that they did not even register the moral implications of what they saw.

3- Those who did have close contact with the order were often disenfranchised by what they saw. In the EU we have already seen countless stories of parents who lost a child to the Order, or of Temple employees who had no respect for the Jedi because of their frequent aloofness. Seeing Anakin act the way he did, just cemented their opinions.

All that being said, I think there is alot to say for the theory of him being too old and emotionally developed. Those emotions drove many of his decisions. However, it is probable that those emotions fueled his strength in the Force. The Jedi knew how powerful emotions could make a force wielder. That is why the code ends with "There is no emotion, there is the Force." However, they blinded themselves to some degree my adopting the philosophy early on.

All in all, should they have disciplined more Annie for his behavior? Yes.

Would it have stopped him from becoming who he was? Very unlikely.