Coming of age through the day-to-day tasks of opposition politics, Chen Chu has always felt that her own grasp of theory is inadequate, and in her tenure as director of Taipei City's Bureau of Social Affairs, she used her evenings to take courses in social development at Shih Hsin University.
在反對陣營成長的陳菊，一直認為自己理論基礎不夠，在台北市社會局長任內，她就利用晚上時間到世新大學學分班進修社會發展方面的課程。