Education In A Bottle

An advanced society has figured how to package basic knowledge in pill form. A student, needing some learning, goes to the pharmacy and asks what kind of knowledge pills are available.

The pharmacist says "Here's a pill for English literature." The student takes the pill and swallows it and has a new and deeper knowledge of English literature!

"What else do you have?" asks the student.

"Well, I have pills for art, history, biology, and geography," replies the pharmacist.

The student asks for these and, swallowing them, and has vast new knowledge on each of these subjects. Then the student asks, "Do you have a pill for math?"

The pharmacist says "Wait just a moment", and goes back into the storeroom and brings back a HUGE pill and presents it to the student.

"I have to take that huge pill for math?" inquires the student.

Replies the pharmacist, "Well, math always was a little hard to swallow."