Among the first class to graduate from primary school following the departure of the Japanese and the establishment of the Nationalist government on Taiwan, Lee went on to study sericulture at Tahu's vocational junior high school. Students at the school spent half of each four-month semester raising silkworms, and half in the classroom.
做為國民政府來台後的第一屆小學畢業生，李喬大湖國校畢業後進入大湖職校蠶絲科就讀，一學期 4 個月當中，2 個月養蠶、2 個月讀書。