new school

Current methods preferred

New school describes styles, methods, or attitudes that are modern, innovative, or recently developed—contrasted with old school.

The term suggests a break from tradition: new school hip-hop, a new school approach to management.

It can be neutral or carry slight dismissiveness from traditionalists who prefer established ways.

fashion

streetwear

Skate and hip-hop clothing

fresh · current · trendsetting · fast fashion · Supreme

hip-hop

rap

Quick sharp blow

  • beatsPulses or defeats
  • MCVocal performer or host
  • flowUnbroken forward movement

rhymes · freestyle · mixtape · DJ · sampling · lyricism · trap · emcee · Drake · Kendrick

innovative

cutting-edge

At innovation's forefront

groundbreaking · revolutionary · state-of-the-art · futuristic · trailblazing · creative · original · visionary · forward-thinking · unconventional

education

curriculum

Educational program's content plan

teachers · academia · classroom · tuition · syllabus · textbooks · homework · lectures · seminar · university

art-movement

modernism

Favoring contemporary approaches

neo-expressionism · installation art · conceptual art · street art · video art · emerging artists · art collective

Categories
Opposites
temporal/generational approach

new schoolold school

Adhering to earlier ways

old-school · old guard · traditionalist · classical · vintage

innovation vs. tradition

new schooltraditional

Following long-held customs

conservative · time-honored · by-the-book · purist · fundamentalist

temporal/generational style

new schoolold school

Adhering to earlier ways

old-fashioned · old guard · vintage · retro · classic

Family

new, school, schooling, schooled, schools, schoolgirl, schoolboy, preschool, unschooled

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G