January 6, 2025 • John Puddefoot

Welcome to the New EDSIL Blog

This marks a fresh start for the EDSIL blog, now hosted on our new platform.

Over the coming months, I’ll be sharing reflections on educational leadership, the challenges and rewards of founding international schools, and thoughts on how education can better serve young people in an increasingly complex world.

What to expect

The focus will be on practical wisdom gained from decades of working with schools across cultures—from Eton to Sri Lanka, from Hyderabad to China. Some posts will be philosophical, others more practical, but all will aim to contribute something useful to the ongoing conversation about what education is for and how we might do it better.

A note on the archive

The previous blog, hosted on our Wix site, contained posts dating back several years. Rather than migrate everything, we’ve chosen to start afresh. Those earlier pieces served their purpose at the time; this is an opportunity for new thinking.


If you’d like to discuss any of the ideas shared here, please get in touch via the contact page.

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