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I think Newt reading Booker T. is a good thing. I'd say it is obvious he got this idea precisely from BTW's autobiography. Why he does not admit it, I do not know. Perhaps he feels he might lose a few Kluxxer votes.
Is BTW the true origionator of the idea? Are working students unheard of before him?
PrehistoryThere is some evidence, from figurative art, of trousers being worn in the Upper Paleolithic. An example are the figurines found at the Siberian sites of Mal'ta and Buret'. Antiquity Scythian archer. Interior from an Ancient Greek Attic red-figure plate, ca. 520–500 BC, from Vulci. British Museum, London. Germanic trousers of the 4th century found in the Thorsberg moor, GermanyTrousers first enter recorded history in the 6th century BCE, with the appearance of horse-riding Iranian peoples in Greek ethnography. At this time, not only the Persians, but also allied Central Asian peoples such as the Bactrians, Armenians, and the Tigraxauda Scythians are known to have worn them.Trousers are believed to have been worn by both sexes among these early users.The ancient Greeks used the term "?" (anaxyrides) for the trousers worn by eastern nations and "??" (sarabara) for the loose trousers worn by the Scythians. However, they did not wear trousers since they thought them ridiculous, using the word "?" (thulakes), pl. of "?" (thulakos), "sack", as a slang term for the loose trousers of Persians and other orientals.Republican Rome viewed the draped clothing of Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Minoan (Crete) culture as an emblem of civilization and disdained trousers as the mark of barbarians.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers
