Socrates and the Socratic Method

Here is an interesting article by a professor about how to use the Socratic Method in teaching. I wonder what you in Core think about it? We have talked a lot about Socrates being arrogant. He is not a very likable character, but is he a good teacher?
It seems to me that Socrates was criticizing teaching and teachers, at least as they were in his day. He says:

...I think it is a fine thing to be able to teach people as Gorgias of Leontini does...Each of these men can go to any city and persuade the young, who can keep company with any one of their own fellow citizens they want without paying, to leave the companey of these men, to join with [the teachers], pay them a fee, and to be grateful to them besides.

Socrates says he is NOT a teacher, and yet now we use his methods!