If you classify an English degree as "un-useful", you should not be involved in educating developers.

I studied both CS and English in college, and got my degree in English. The communication skills and translation techniques I learned as an English major have been tremendously useful to me in my career as a software engineer. In my experience hiring developers, I've found that those with liberal arts degrees do very well, particularly when they leverage their humanities background as an asset.

Anyone can write code, but it takes a breadth of knowledge and perspective to effectively maintain and engineer software that has societal value.