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Too Cool for School describes a person who is too cool to be in a school or some other educational institution. Such people are often considered child prodigies. Historically educational attainment was very low, so most people were simply just too cool to be in school. The term may also describe people who object to traditional academia. For example in 1951 The Franklin, Pennsylvania News Herald said of Lionel Hampton: " turned down a chance to lecture at a West Coast university on the lexicon of jazz. He told the profs he couldn't figure out how to define the language of the hipsters without employing unintelligible terms. (If you're hip, you're just too cool for school!)"
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