English 101 courses? I would think that most anyone knows what the difference is between a noun and a verb. You need to attend college to teach you this?

As for a degree being a good thing to have, of course it is, education is a wonderful thing, however a degree in anything but English is useless here in China. You can't teach English in any western country with a degree in History, hence why should you be able to here in China? If it's allowed, then no degree is more or less the same thing.