At present, the study of ideological and political education concepts needs to correctly identify and effectively distinguish the key directions in the understanding of ideological and political education concepts, and on this basis, dialectically grasp the logical relationship between them. The conceptual analysis of ideological and political education needs to consciously distinguish between the “name” and the “reality” of ideological and political education, between the “invention” and the “discovery” of ideological and political education, between the “concept” and the “conception” of ideological and political education, and between the “essence” and the “form” of ideological and political education, reasonably grasp the inner connection between them, and establish clear and explicit basic concepts for the scientificization of ideological and political education.