Inaugurating three courses in basic aviation instruction, the Graduate School of Education moved to modify their wartime program last week. The School plans to open the training classes today, acting in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Education.

Eleven members of the Faculty of the University will conduct the new courses throughout the next six weeks. Various phases of fundamental training will be outlined, and members of the classes will emerge with a background necessary for further flying instruction.

The first course will consider the background of aeronautical history, and the advances made in aviation sciences up to the present time. In the second of the series, basic information concerning servicing and manufacturing of planes will be discussed as background material for actual flying. The third section will consist wholly of a conference of national education leaders, dealing with the relationship of aviation to education.

Stressing the necessity of such primary training. Dean Holmes, of the School declared "No sudden period of intensive training for small numbers can give us a victorious army of air-fighters. The fundamentals of flight are not hard, and if all schools teach them, the process of developing a great body of pilots will be made easier."