As an educator myself I see the many flaws in our educational system. There are gaps in our educational system and our means of assessment are often times lackluster at best. Although this quote is a seemingly perfect answer, I only wish we could attain as perfect a method of implementing it! Aside from the fact that many of the people that determine what our children learn are not educators but politicians, they do not realize that "stupid is as stupid does"!
 

That must be frustrating, having so much of what you teach dictated to you by non-educators.

Implementing reality-driven learning is much easier in a home setting, if only because the ratio of "teacher" to "students" is much lower. We are able to be more flexible with our curriculum because of that.

Even without the flexibility of lower ratio, it would be possible to purge a larger classroom of what the author calls "stupid learning" if one were in control of the curriculum choices. But, that's the basic problem of the public schools, government money=government control. It's also played out in traditional private schools, just with different purse strings.

So, you're right, those who've gone to school to learn to educate, and who have the drive to do so often have little say over what their students study. That stinks. I applaud your efforts!