One of the greatest and most successful experiments in education began in 1980 when Mr. William Zanker, then in his twenties, created The Learning Annex, the most successful adult education organization in the United States. It is hard to understand why no one had yet come to realize the genius in Mr. Bill Zanker’s vision.  That is until you realize that in order to create something like The Learning Annex you would have to have a masterful understanding of the systems theory. Bill Zanker is a genius in building businesses. Mr. Zanker has established the understandings on the most basic level a system as an established group of interdependent details or parts - items, ideas, or principles – that form a complex whole, over time to perform a task.

What Bill Zanker did when he created The Learning Annex is apply this concept of systems to adult education. First find current topics of interest, then locate master teachers, gurus & experts willing to explore these topics in short 3 hour blocks, next find the teaching space to offer these classes, print and distribute catalogues announcing the classes and then get the word out!

Today, The Learning Annex offers much more than just three-hour classes. By the early 21st century Bill Zanker got wind of hundreds of thousands of students converging in convention centers throughout New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and many other major cities to learn about how to become wealthy! The results would make a systems expert proud. Bill Zanker’s Learning Annex is a multi-million dollar success story that is changing the world.