21st century Students in the Amish Classroom

At the end of class today a very interesting question was raised. We had been talking about how the Amish would succeed (or fail) in our public school systems, when it was asked how we would fare in an Amish School System.
First, I think that our ability to adjust is more fully developed than that of the Amish students. For eight years the Amish sit in one classroom, with one teacher (even if this teacher changes, the method of the next teacher is the same as the previous). In our public schools, however, we are exposed to several different teachers with several different approaches to teaching. We may feel stifled in the strict and rigid setting of the Amish schoolhouse, but the process of adjusting to new things is not, well, new to us.
Also, in our society there is an emphasis on accepting other cultures (which makes "our society" hard to define, being made up of so many differing and at times conflicting cultures). I think it would therefore be easier for us to go to an Amish school without having the psychic cost that an Amish student may feel in a public school. By this I mean that the Amish student could feel as though he/she were being split in two by the conflicting cultures, whereas English students would be better at compartmentalizing the information. We are better at being able to say when something is the opinion of the teacher or the society, and then being able to pick out what is most important to us/our education. That was a really complicated way of saying we would probably be able to separate the Amish culture from the education we were receiving with out a major effect on our psyches or English lives. In the Amish schools, the connection between homelife and school-life is extremely strong (the transition between the two being almost seamless). Our society has more of a disconnect between the two. (The connection between school and home is different than the connection between individual and literacy. When talking about the latter, the Amish have a disconnect. From the reading it appears that the Amish do not bring their personal lives into their readings, however who the individual is and the ethics/rules of society are the same in both the house and school.)
I also think that English students would have an easier times adjusting because we did learn how to draw information from texts. We could answer correctly that questions that Verna was asking of her Amish students (our education builds upon this skill into analytical/critical thinking, which the Amish do not).
The trouble for us would be thriving in the rigid setting of the Amish classroom. Our society puts emphasis on the individual, singling people out when they do something good or bad. It would be hard for us to work well in a situation where we would be seen as just one of the group. With the individual praise and attention (our positive reinforcement), I wonder if we would even have the drive to do the work.
That is just my opinion, however. I firmly believe in the flexibility of the human state. When put into situations where we are forced to adjust, we do. The concept of sink or swim is drilled into our heads. That being, I feel that an English student could adjust to the Amish schoolhouse, though their success would not be based in Amish principles. Instead, a think that a successful English student in the Amish schoolroom would be successful because they don't want to sink, or fail. Individual failure would be a huge drive for us in such a situation, which actually goes back to the notion of competition. In English society we don't like to lose. Therefore, I think that we could adjust (we just wouldn't like it).