What does "old-school" mean?

Question

i heard this expression being used referring to a style of something... like an old school paint for a car... what does it mean???

Answer 1

A style,action, or personality trait that used to be common and has lacked popularity.

When you're in your 30's and wear clothes that resemble the ones you wore back in highschool, that's ol' school.

When you prefer to record something on a tape cassette rather than a CD, that's ol' school.

If you're not into hanging out at the local starbcks, just pick up coffee from the local donut shop and drink it in your car, well.. you know

If you're gonna be ol' school, atleast try to represent that manner properly.

Answer 2

You're not from the old school are you?
Typically, and loosely, it means the earlier form of something. It can be theisms, methodisms and just about anything in between.
When schools were first mandatory, often the were nothing more than a large house divided into 4 to 8 rooms, sometimes combining more than one grade in the same class room. As time progressed we got the cement structures we have now, where one grade may have eight classrooms. The old school was sufficient for education, but not much more.
Using a hand held planer to make a door fit, for instance would be old school, while using an electric one would not.
A dollars pay for a dollars work would be old school but today it's a dollars work for a weeks pay.
Doing your best at anything you set out to do would be old school, while getting by with doing as little as possible would not.
Counting change back in my head, as opposed to relying on the computer is another example.
Old school would dictate that a simple division problem could as easily be done with a #2 pencil and paper as with a scientific calculator.

Answer 3

Actually it would be how our Grandparents had it.
Everything was made from scratch food wise. There were no short cuts like we have today. Toys were either made by the child and Father if they were poor. Walking to school for miles and back home the same way. Washing clothes either by hand or in one of those old fashioned wringer washers, By hand you put the clothes through the wringer. Old school means mainly the culture and how certain procedures were done or carried out in t what we called, the olden days.

Answer 4

It was a turn of the 19th century word that meant someone who represented established custom. Given that there had been great intellectual and cultural upheaval from the Age of Enlightenment, someone who was old school (old guard) represented conformity and tradition. In reality old school was an outdated, traditional, viewpoint in a quickly evolving world.

It now has a different usage in the vernacular. While the meaning is the same, there is a nuance. Where as "old school" old school represented a lessened past in a dynamic present, today's old school represents a "truer" or more legitimate past in a imitation or false present.

A scientist of 1800 termed "old school" would be resistant to the scientific theories of that time as they were not "established thinking" (i.e. dismissing John Michell's and Pierre Laplace's theories on black holes).

A scientist of 2000 termed "old school" would be someone who shirked conventional thinking to espouse a past idea to bring greater truth or success (i.e. bringing back a twenty year old idea like string theory).

Answer 5

old school is simple a saying used when you believe that something someone has said or done is no longer popular or up to the style of the present time

Answer 6

old school means old fashioned like for example the comparison of a 67' chevy to a 2006 lexxus gt-x. it also reffers to the type of lifestyle a person used to have.

Answer 7

Old school, variously spelled old skool, oldschool or oldskool, is a slang term referring to an older school of thinking or acting, and to old objects in general, within the context of newer, more modern times. Rather than carrying the negative connotation of obsolete or out-dated, it may be used to refer to a time of perceived higher standards or level of craft. The term "old school" may be effectively equivalent to "They just don't make 'em like this anymore."

Old school is often interchangeable with the word nostalgic but practitioners of semantics often define old school as simply something of an earlier period but not necessarily inferior or hopelessly dated. Nostalgia, on the other hand, is often given a negative connotation. For example, as a sentimental attachment to dated works many of which are now considered embarrassingly 'corny' or 'cheesy' in their execution, yet retaining a place in one's sentiments as a guilty pleasure or relic of one's youth. This definition is often associated with cartoons and other children's shows, especially after one reaches adulthood.

Answer 8

It's an old-fashioned way of doing something. It's the way something used to be done, but is not done that way anymore.

Answer 9

The way things were done before everyone went crazy... when people still cared more about others than them self

Answer 10

Old school mean back in the day.
Like I am going to go old school on you a**. basically that statement says they are going to kick your butt like the olden days, i.e. fist to cuffs, e mono e mono. and so forth.