Here are my responses to your statements:

In your statement below, you ignore again the basic profile requirements of a real teacher. As is standard everywhere in the world, a teacher needs to know his subject he is teaching and how to teach it. This is normally achieved by a relevant degree plus additional professional teacher training.

For obvious reasons, this is not always the standard in ESL. ESL is mainly a business run by and consisting of imposters, con-artists and other kind of social misfits that do more harm than any good to their students, Pretend "teachers" with fake degrees and TEFL certs from part of this disgusting scenery, and none of the main players - the provider/owner nor the "teachers" they employ - is giving a damn on the students who pay them. Holding a relevant degree and proof of proper teacher training are therefore criteria of quality assurance to set the decent schools apart from all those shitty operations that don't provide what they promise. Instead of speculating about why people value degrees (those who hold them and those who do not hold them), you should perhaps better look at the original purpose which they serve.

Holding a relevant degree will help some of the students, NOT the ones who are forced their by wealthy parents because these parents were too lazy to raise these children. You also stated that ESL is run by imposters, so any real standard will automatically be thrown out the window. Why would a person with a degree with real knowledge want to collaborate and enable this type of bad behavior? It is because you chose to go to these types of places. Degrees should be valued, I didn't say they shouldn't. But people with degrees do not always make good teachers, this is a topic that has been covered before on this forum. I myself have met some of the worst characters with high degrees. For example with the issue of paedophilia some of the supposed perpetrators had PH.D's.

On your input below: A degree always involves a major where the degree holder has been
certified to be an "expert" in. Outside that area of his major, he is not an
expert and not a "know-it-all". But a good and broad spectrum of general
education and interests helps to extend an educated opinion beyond the narrow level of
one's major and may prevent you from becoming a narrow-minded person focused on his
subject area only an to take a more holistic approach instead. Especially in ESL, where
all kinds of people mix - the better educated, the less well educated and the uneducated
- the less or uneducated will always label you a "know-it-all" when you put
them in place because of their unprofessional and unethical attitude and behaviour.
Typically, a "know-it-all" is someone with a big mouth and pretends to be
always right but lacking the intellectual and professional substance to prove his point.
Then, it's more about the ego than the issue you stand for. The less and uneducated in
ESL, who compete professionally with the better and well-educated, have nothing than
this "know-it-all" label to throw in their favour because.....----- their
brain is quite empty in terms other good points they could make in their own favour to
justify their own miserable status as pretend "teachers" (= deechers) in ESL.
Get rid of them, they serve no purpose other than themselves, they are no good and
entirely useless like those who employ them!.

"A good spectrum" is not a very objective statement IMO as it is different for everyone. I can have an extended spectrum on computers and you may have yours in psychology. It cannot possibly fit every teaching situation. You are just using this as a logical shield to not get anywhere. On the other hand, your definition of a "know-it-all" actually fits both degree holders and non-degree holders quite well. I don't see how a degree holder can actually have "intellectual and professional substance" in the realm of education if they do not actually possess good teaching skills and a good overall personality. I think if you have a lot of knowledge but a bad personality you might as well have almost none of that knowledge. ESL types who are both degree and non-degree holders have a hard time getting their messages across to people without having to rely on pre-existing knowledge to hold themselves up. They can possess a lot of information if they have good memory intelligence, but it takes a lot more than that to actually get people to actually understand you.
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