"If you want to think about writing, teaching, research methods, social justice, and the purposes of education within a democracy, take Rose's book, put up your feet, and settle down for a good read. The concern that Rose returns to again and again, the concern that both underlies his research and infuses his writing, is the power of democracy: what it means to provide access and opportunity to those who have been denied it, what it would look like in practice to affirm the learning potential of all human beings, how educators can open universes rather than close down worlds."
— Sondra Perl, Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York