As it happened, while Lee was switching from school to school in neighboring villages and towns, Peng Ming-min, who was also born in 1923 and is only half a year Lee's junior, attended four different elementary schools for similar reasons.
巧合的是，當李登輝在鄉裡附近幾所小學轉出轉入的時候，同樣是日本大正十二年出生、僅比李登輝小上半歲的彭明敏，也為著類似的理由，輾轉在四所小學間。