Chapter 91: UNIQUE PRINCESS
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.
Moreover, most wealthy commoner families were educated because most of them were side branches of noble households and had received education before they left the household upon selection of the main branch.
Those wealthy families who hadn’t had that privilege could still receive an education as they had the finances and could afford to hire a tutor.
They could afford such a provision and wouldn’t mind the price. If anything, they loved the price that made them higher than those of lower standing.
Thus, even though those wealthy and aristocrat families and their children were commoners and could not attend the academy, they could hire tutors to educate them. That way, they could still receive proper education.
That was why they could be tutors as an occupation as most in nobility didn’t entertain the idea of becoming tutors.
"Would there be a problem if someone started a school for commoners? Aristia asked.