Socrates styled himself an ignoramus who went around asking questions of people who supposedly were wise on the grounds that he might have something to learn from them, and invariably it turned out to be the case that, under Socrates’s questioning, the people who were reputed to be wise had no idea what they were talking about. One could take away the lesson from all of this that Socrates really was especially wise in that he knew that he really was ignorant of wisdom, while all other men thought that they knew something, or that he was a wiseass who knew he was smarter than everybody else and just liked to show it to them in a backhanded kind of way. If you believe in the latter interpretation, then you might be led to think that Socrates actually was an educator, in that he sought to reveal to people that they had more to learn in order to be wise, but this presumes that people who start out thinking they know something actually want to know that they have more to learn. The fact that the Athenians voted to put Socrates to death shows just how much people generally like to have their ignorance revealed to them.