Because, if the most important part of a human being is its soul, then it would only right to start the education from it. The necessity to have clarity on the vision of the soul is inevitable, to become the very whole human being. Sensibilities would then be the compass.
Paideia means education, it commonly refers to civilization. Platonic view on education emphasizes the need to nurture the soul. The word soul that is associated with freedom, therefore, builds an education system that is based on the spirit of freedom.
The process of education, through Platon's view, needs to nurture freedom. Hence in the facts of one's privilege, one can still see the certain orientation of one's self.
One would be able to nurture one's self. One would be aware of one's privilege and to reflect on it. Without being able to reflect, one would be drawn in one's privilege. Lives in shallowness and at risk of being only an object, without consciousness.
Lastly, Paideia needs to be taken seriously, yet as close as Paidia (Paidia, means children's game), it needs to be given through playful acts. As Platon remarks on the insignificant of our action as a being,
"...to live out one's life as a puppet of the gods, is to devote one's life".We are all, after all, inexorably, absolutely, exhaustedly, motivated by the iron chords of amusement and agony.
references:
Ward, Ann, Classical Rationalism and the Politics of Europe
Meyer, Susan sauvé, Legislation as a Tragedy
Wibowo, A. Setyo, Paideia
