Thoughts and Reflections: Socrates "Apology"

Socrates must possess wisdom because smart people have been studying his teachings for over 2,000 years.  Many people who are considered to be wise think that Socrates possessed wisdom. Dawson School has us study Socrates and must think it's important to learn the thoughts of Socrates.  Socrates created the "Socratic Method" where one tries to understand things by asking questions.  Socrates believed in gods but not necessarily the official gods of Athens.  “I understand we can pray to gods that our sojourn will continue happy beyond the grave.” In other words Socrates believed in a life after death with a god who makes a judgment.  On the last paragraph on page 53 Socrates talks about the fact that his plain speaking caused him to be unpopular, because nobody wants to hear the truth about whether they thought were true were actually true.  In Socrates opinion he couldn't have intentionally have had a bad influence on the young because because if only he has had a bad influence on the young then everyone else would have had to have had a good influence on the young.  And this is clearly not the case.  Instead he is like a trainer of horses, one of the few who have a good influence while others have a bad influence.