Teachers Are People
As the narrator explains, educating children is one of the most important things today and the heroic man who takes on this role is “the school teacher” (Goofy, naturally). After taking role call, Goofy tries to teach the class but keeps having to deal with a mischievous trouble-maker named George who enjoys sneaking out of class to go fishing, eating the teacher’s apple, squeaking chalk, making faces while teacher gives a geography lesson, and terrorizing the other students with his water pistol. In the end, George’s mischief goes too far when he destroys the school with an exploding bomb and is forced to write “I will not bomb the school again” 100 times!
Goofy as a schoolteacher, in one of the sharper entries in the everyman series. The joke is on the pupils as much as the teacher, and there is a genuine undercurrent of sympathy for the profession that keeps the short from being merely a series of classroom gags.