He laughs and says he was fortunate in that his father was a leader of broad experience and knowledge who was willing to let him stay in school for one more year even though he had already received a Japanese diploma. Tiway Sayion thus was among the first students to nominally graduate from primary school after Taiwan's return to the ROC.
他笑說，幸而父親是見多識廣的頭目，有辦法讓已經領了日文小學畢業證書的他留校「寄讀」一年，成為名義上台灣光復後的第一屆國小畢業生。