The school was in the eyes of the ideologists of the post-war regime and their pedagogical advisors one of the most important weapons in the fight for a "new society" and a "new man", and therefore it had to be redesigned with new people and contents. The pre-war gymnastic societies Sokol and Orel were replaced with Physical culture (from 1948 Physical education) association of Slovenia, which, in 1952, was transformed into Association for physical education Partizan. On the 27th June 1947 the journal Comrade (“Tovariš”) reported that the Institution for physical culture “will liberate the Slovenian physical culture from foreign influence and give it people and worldly character”. After one year of schooling the first generation of new gym teachers dispersed across Slovenian towns and started to shape the destiny of sport development at both local and national level. Through their personal stories and the preserved archive sources we enlighten the mechanisms for the establishment of higher education and its impact on the development or revival of sports life in the new socialist regime in general.