Implicit education refers to the educational process in which the educated are unconsciously influenced by social activities with hidden purposes, unplanned, indirect and implicit under the macro leadership. It realizes the purpose of education in daily life, permeates the process of education in leisure and leisure, and exerts a subtle influence on the thoughts, concepts, values, morality, attitudes and emotions of the educated. The educational subject of recessive education is "macro-dominance", or the "operator" of recessive education is "macro-dominance". Implicit education and explicit education belong to two different educational methods, with corresponding categories and complementary functions.

This is divided from the presentation form of educational function, and the dominant function of education is the consistent result of education in actual operation according to educational purposes. For example, promoting people's all-round harmonious development and social progress is the expression of explicit educational function. The recessive function of education is an unexpected function accompanied by the dominant function. For example, education replicates existing social relations, reproduces social inequality, and schools take care of children, all of which are manifestations of hidden functions. The difference between overt and covert is relative. Once the hidden potential function is consciously developed and utilized, it becomes an explicit educational function.