Yeah, I did all that too. Why would English possibly be important? My job is to write code, all that matters is how well my programs work, whatever. Then I found out in the real world that I deal with other people and a lot of my job (and life!) is explaining and convincing people, not just writing good code. So, even though I went to school to be good at programming, I can see the value in people going to school to be good at communicating.