I don't often mention the "direction" in these Tom and Jerry cartoons, but it's excellent here with some nice "camera" angles of the action. This is a good-looking T&J cartoon with a nice restoration job making it look even better, that restoration part of the "Spotlight" DVD collections.
As for the story, sometimes we get a variation of the house or mouse settings, meaning Jerry's residence. Normally, it's a suburban house that you see, or sometimes he's on a farm or elsewhere. Here, his mouse-home, so to speak, is not his normal, either, but a school room, complete with chairs, maps, chalkboard, etc. How this all happens, we don't ask.
Jerry only has one student, and it looks like Nibbles the Orphan, at least I assume the little gray mouse is him. I see from other reviewers here that they renamed the mouse "Tuffy." Anyway, Jerry is trying to teach him "Tuffy" the basics on how not to get caught by a cat. Jerry isn't the best of instructors, as we discover.
The bulk of the cartoon is what happens outside the "classroom" when the two go out for "lessons." Lesson number one is how to remove a cat's whiskers without waking him up. Hmmm....no wonder I usually feel sorry for poor Tom, who often is lying around minding his own business when Jerry does something like what's shown here!
Anyway, when all is said-and-done, the roles wind up a little surprising as far as the teacher and the pupil go, with a cute and unexpected ending.
