josepp said,"But if you are going to learn, learn from someone you know is qualified. If that person doesn't have a degree in music--good luck."

This depends on your goals. If you're aspiring to be a music theory teacher or a classical musician, perhaps your teacher should have a degree. If you want to be a folk singer, country singer, singer/songwriter, pop singer, rock singer... you'll probably find people without degrees who can do a great job of teaching you. People like Happy Traum, Stephan Grossman, Rev Gary Davis, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger... have taught many successful musicians without having musical degrees, assuming that honourary degrees don't count. Pete Wernick, an accomplished banjo teacher, has a degree, but it's not in music.

I think we should agree with josepp that if you want to learn music theory, you should learn from someone who knows music theory and that person will often have a degree; but many of the world's most successful musicians don't have degrees in music and don't need them to make wonderful music and make people happy and to teach others how to do the same.