I have further thoughts about Quinlan as essentially the Yoda figure of the new Jedi Order (whether it's Luke's Jedi or Cal's Jedi, doesn't really matter).
Quinlan would likely never take a Padawan again. His Padawan was brutally murdered during Order 66 and the Kenobi show tells us that he spent at minimum 10 more years doing nothing but saving more Force sensitive children from the Empire and getting them to safety. He CAN'T lose any more, he's hyper focused on saving as many Force sensitive children as he can and losing them would be a failure. So I don't know if he would ever feel like he could take on the commitment and responsibility of training a Padawan again, it would be too much and he's never truly ready for it after Aayla dies.
But he doesn't mind being a teacher IN GENERAL. He doesn't mind teaching classes to large groups of Jedi younglings or Padawans. That part he's okay with and he actually loves doing it. He loves getting to connect to all of them, he loves helping them connect to the Force and learn new things and see them glow when they finally figure something out that they've been working on for weeks. And of course he loves helping them commit mischief, he has NO problems telling them exactly how to pull pranks on Cal and Luke and Leia and Reva and Ferus and Ahsoka and anyone else who's still around.
And, of course, he's a carrier of memories. As the oldest living Jedi left, he has more memories of other Jedi and of the Temple and of what being a Jedi meant and what it was like to live that life than anyone else has. Yoda wasn't the ONLY older Jedi in the Order, there were a number of other Jedi who lived for centuries and had helped him carry that burden, but he'd been one of the oldest by the end and often was the one most Jedi went to for the wisdom and guidance he had to offer as a result of how long he'd lived. Quinlan doesn't quite have that same support, but the surviving Jedi Padawans do their best to help, to add the memories they carry to his stories, to remind him of things he'd forgotten already, to add the names of Jedi they'd known that Quinlan had never met or only known in passing. But Quinlan remains the one most people go to if they want to ask questions about what the Jedi had been like, or what it means to be a Jedi, or if he remembers if the Jedi had certain practices or traditions they could take up again. He knows they go to some of the others like Cal and Luke for wisdom and guidance, too, but there are certain things he knows that only he can answer anymore.
I don't know if he figures it out on his own or if someone like Cal or Ferus or Reva or Ahsoka points out that he's essentially become "Yoda" for the new Jedi, but it hits him like a speeder either way. A part of him rejects it, doesn't WANT to have to take on that mantle when he never should've HAD to as a species that didn't have a particularly long lifespan, doesn't want to think about WHY he's become "Yoda" despite his shorter lifespan. But another part of him is honored by it. Yoda had been someone everyone had loved, someone that had touched everyone's life in one way or another. He'd been everyone's Master, everyone's guide, everyone's mentor. And Yoda had loved them all back in return, he'd delighted in spending time with the younglings and the Padawans and the younger Knights, he'd always made himself available when they were struggling and needed help (or he'd come to find them before they had been willing to ask for help and sometimes even before they knew they'd NEEDED help). There are certainly worse roles he could fill, worse people for him to have become in his old age. He's genuinely honored that the Jedi who remember Yoda see a similarity between them and he refuses to take that lightly.
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