Former Washington Post columnist Coleman McCarthy will be speaking on behalf of peace at 7:30 p.m. this Friday at Santa Barbara City College’s Fe Bland Forum.

McCarthy is a prominent peace educator and will be coming to west campus to give his “Teach Peace” disposition in the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s seventh Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture.

“What makes us happy is service to others,” he says. “If schools don’t expose students to the joys of community service, we graduate people who are idea rich but experience poor.

“In these addled times of leave no child untested, we think it’s enough to pound ideas into the kids’ heads. You can make all As in school and go out and flunk life.”

McCarthy is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center in addition to teaching classes at high schools in Washington D.C. Before his teaching career, he wrote for the Washington Post for 28 years and founded the Center for Teaching Peace in 1985.

He is known as one of the premier peace educators in this country looking to teach children peace before someone else teaches them violence. Admission for the event is free and open to the public.