Implicit and Explicit Learning What is learning? The first thing that comes to mind is education - whether it’s my kids going to school and being taught how to read or add numbers, or adults at university studying the classics, or how to run a business. That's one kind of learning - a combination of being shown something new, and gaining an understanding of how to take actions that enable the doing of that new thing. But there is also a more implicit kind of learning that takes place all t...