In the early 1960's, at a time when promoting the use of Mandarin was a major government policy, Ke Wei-chih, then headmaster of the Mintsu primary school in Hualien, but also a member of the "National Language Promotion Committee," actually required his pupils of Mainland ancestry to learn Taiwanese dialect.
“母語教學” 害他記過在推行國語政策的年代裡，身兼「國語推行委員會」委員的前花蓮民族國小校長葛維智，在民國五十年左右竟在學校裡要求外省籍小朋友學閩南語。