Aristia understood why that was so.
Previously, only males were allowed to be educated. Females were looked down on and were not seen as qualified by the dominating majority of sexists. Later on, females were allowed to receive education. But that was for the nobility.
Commoners didn't have such privileges. They were looked down on even more than the nobility looked down on females of the same nobility. The commoner males were viewed lower than the females of nobility and the commoner females were viewed lower than the males.
Most nobles still had the ideology that the commoners weren't worth giving an education.
But the major reason was that the commoners had no money. They strived everyday and worked hard to earn money. They couldn't afford to use the money to hire a tutor and pay the exorbitant price demanded by the tutors. Of course, that exorbitant price was nothing to the aristocrats and wealthy commoners.
