At the mention of this incident, Chen has no regrets: "I went to a public school, then I went to a Japanese school, so I started to wonder--why was it that in Taiwan there were public schools and Japanese schools?
重提這起讓他喪失升學資格的事件，陳千武並不後悔：「我讀過公學校，再讀日本小學校時，就曾思考：同一個台灣，為什麼有公學校和小學校之分？