At that time, fourty percent of the national budget for education went into the overseas education expense of 260 people dispatched abroad, and the Ministry of Education was thinking of aborting their overseas education and using the expense to invite foreign teachers (foreign residents in Japan employed to teach new techniques).
当時、国内の教育予算のうち40％弱が海外に派遣されていた260名の留学費用に充てられており、文部省としては彼らの留学を打ち切ってその費用で外国人教師（お雇い外国人）を招聘することを考えていた。