What Is The Future Of Pakistan’s Education System? Ft. Bilal Hameed & Asad Hashamali | 286 | TBT

Join the Inner Circle, my weekly letter on AI, building, and being early to what's coming: https://muzamilhasan.com/inner-circle... Read the thesis, the one idea behind everything I'm building: https://muzamilhasan.com/thesis My website: https://muzamilhasan.com International listeners can support TBT here: https://buy.stripe.com/14keVU54r5hQ55... In tonight’s conversation with our special guests, Bilal Hameed & Asad Hashamali. What was their education & early life like? Why did Bilal come back to Pakistan from NYC? When did he start teaching? How did he find Cedar College? How did he set up Alt academy? Asad’s experience as an intern at Cedar College? How was working with Bilal? What is the idea of building Alt academy? How did they start it? What is its vision & insight? When did they start hiring employees? How is Alt academy different from other academies? Schools vs. academies? How to solve the problems of the broken education system in Pakistan? How to attain diversity in today’s education system? Early learning programs & high school as the business models? What is the future of education & learning in Pakistan? How can educational institutions build opportunities for the people? How do they see Pakistan in 2050? Catch this and much more in tonight's episode. #thoughtbehindthings #muzamilhasan #education 00:00 Tonight’s guests: Bilal Hameed & Asad Hashamali 01:54 Bilal’s early life & education 07:33 Why did he come back to Pakistan after his graduation? 12:01 The start of his teaching career 14:47 Co-Founding Nixor School 16:42 Setting up Cedar College 17:47 Founding Alt academy 20:38 Asad’s early life & education 23:14 Being an intern at the Cedar team 24:55 Working with Bilal 29:28 The idea of building Alt academy 31:35 The start of Alt academy & making content on YouTube 35:07 Investing & turning it into a business 36:50 Alt academy’s vision & insight 38:44 Hiring employees 39:52 What’s different about Alt academy? 45:11 Schools Vs. academies 53:12 How to solve the problems of the broken education system in Pakistan? 1:00:13 How to attain diversity in today’s education system? 1:06:56 Past Vs. current schooling system 1:10:34 Early learning programs & high school as the business models 1:27:02 The future of education & learning in Pakistan 1:41:05 Creating opportunities through education 1:57:18 How do they see Pakistan in 2050? Do not forget to subscribe and press the bell icon to catch on to some amazing conversations coming your way Connect with us: •   / thoughtbehindthings   Bilal Hameed’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iambilalh... Bilal Hameed’s Instagram:   / therealbilalhameed   Alt Academy’s Official Website: https://www.altacademy.org/ Asad H. Hashamali:   / asadhashamali   One8nine Media:    / @smhz-one8nine   Support our podcast: https://anchor.fm/syed-muzamil-hasan-... You can also audio stream our podcast on the following platforms: • Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3z1cE7F • Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2S84VEd • Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3cgIkfI Instagram:   / muzamilhasan   LinkedIn:   / muzamilhasan