In the 1960s, having lived through the Korean War, penniless Chinese began to grasp intuitively that education is a commodity no one can take away. With the loss of the mainland, it became impossible to send one's children back there for an education. Thus overseas Chinese schools began to proliferate like budding plants after a spring rain.
六○年代，歷經韓戰，身無長物的華僑更加體會出教育才是奪不走的資產；加上大陸淪陷，孩子無法送回中國大陸念書，於是華僑學校如雨後春筍般設立。