Ernest Carroll Moore

Ernest Carroll Moore (1871–1955) was an American educator. He co-founded the University of California, Southern Branch, in Los Angeles, California.

Biography

Early life Moore was born in 1871 in Youngstown, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Normal University in 1892, where he also received an LL.B. in 1894.

He served as president of the Los Angeles State Normal School from 1917 to 1919. whose first husband was Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859–1928), a journalist, archaeologist and early activist for Indian rights. Ernest and Dorothea had a son, Kermit S. Moore. They resided on Woodruff Avenue in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, close to the UCLA campus.

In 1936, Moore reportedly expressed his views to a crowd on the necessity for a "Republican New Deal" that would include the "forcible expulsion of unemployed from relief roles, sterilization of the unfit, and war on radicals."

Death and legacy He died on January 23, 1955, at the age of eighty-three, in Los Angeles. Shortly after his death in 1955, the Education building on the UCLA campus was renamed Moore Hall in his honor.

"But the greatest of these is philosophy and never more on trial than in this sorry world in which we live. Shall men tell the truth? Or resolve to live by lying? There are whole populations which have been indoctrinated in prevarication. Is kindness any longer a human virtue? Or is the true life of man an incessant struggle to see who draws first? There has been a transvaluation of values. The world is a battlefield and great nations direct their pilots to machine-gun refugees on crowded roads and call it war. We need a Socrates to teach us what words mean, but more to teach us what conceptions mean. That is what philosophy does, when it is not deadlocked over the barren problem of realism versus idealism. It is a kind of perspective of life, a sailing chart which helps us to find out how human undertakings are related to each other, where dangers lie, and how to sound the depths and keep to navigable waters."