Because I was born with birth defects, I admire people like Dr. Swanson who doesn't let their birth defects defeat them. each of us have our own unique individual path in life to walk. I hope the years since this film was made had treated Dr. Swanson kindly. 😊🙏

Very, very impressive person! I googled her and found that a book had been written about her in 1988. From what I gleaned she earned a doctorate in biochemistry and then went on to a stellar academic career at a university. What makes her journey so extraordinary is that in addition to her physical disability, she received her advanced education and built her career at a time when women were still treated with second class status in many ways. If the disadvantages of her physical disability and gender weren't enough, add to that the fact that her career choice was biochemistry. Science was thoroughly male-dominated back in those days, especially in academia. She's a courageous trailblazer, a genuine hero and an inspiration to us all--especially to women! God bless her soul!

@claucemicro1080

8 ай бұрын

In other ways women were treated better than now. That is, with more respect.

@sbug2705

8 ай бұрын

Is she still living?

I imagine having someone with a disability teaching you a tough subject would be a daily reminder not to worry too much about your own struggles but instead to keep working to achieve your goals. Her comment about the silver lining made me reflect.

Dr. Swanson's attitude on life says it all...positive, cheerful and appreciative... characteristics we all can learn more about from her. Thanks for this film, David. I consider this film one of your best I've seen so far on your channel.

I've just fallen in love with this beautiful woman's spirit! Thank you David Hoffman, Filmmaker You always give us such thoughtful things about being human. 🙏❤️

David, you are a national treasure! Your talent, insight and humanity story telling is bar none inspiring, hope filled, and unconditionally beautiful! Thank you for share your lifetime of work. Keep on keeping'on, the way that brings you joy.

Inspiring video! I admire her outlook on life so much! We all have to play out the hand in life in which we're dealt, we walk all sorts of different and challenging paths, many struggle emencely, but the ability to use humor along the way and celebrate the good things is certainly a silver lining in my book! Thank you David✌

What a great teacher and lady she is 😄👍🏼

Teaching our children to have respect and a concern for all people can help them to understand what some may consider a disability is in effect a special ability. A person may be smaller in stature yet possess a very large and caring heart.

"My outlook on life... How's that?" Wow, what a gem, this one!! ❤💓❤

I think she's awesome !

Beautiful soul and teacher.❤

A beautifully thoughtful film about a beautifully thoughtful lady. Wonderful outlook on life she has. Thank you for sharing, Mr. Hoffman.

Is David the commentator? Is so strange to see how people used to interact with eachother and the kind of vocabulary they use. Some times when i see videos like this. It brings back how i was thought too speak English as a second language and learned how to speak as a Native Speaker. I know language will evolve and change as times goes on. Latin is a perfect example, were dialect and slang from the different regions of former Roman territory, eventually evolved too dialects, later down the road became languages. Great video loved to see how intelligent she is and how she has a cheerful perspective on life.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

I am not the commentator. This is a news report for a local TV station. David Hoffman filmmaker

@SomeKidFromBritain

8 ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmakerWhen was it filmed?

I had a colleague at the American university in Bulgaria, who had the same disability, and she later on became a professor at the neighboring Bulgarian university, which she had also graduated from - two universities!, she was really excellent at her profession of teaching English language and literature, but she went further on and became an instructor at Professional translation of documents from and in English for lawyers in Bulgaria. This marked her career as one of the most successful professors in Bulgaria in general, she also won an important public contest for contemporary literature in Bulgarian, writing a rare reflexive autobiographical novel, in which she addressed herself as an ordinary girl. And all of her students respected her as a usual person, and an equal 👍👍

Enjoyed this video very much.

Great! I'm glad to learn more disability history, and it's awesome to see how education has (and hasn't) changed over time. Thank you for sharing profiles like these. 💖

“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm?” - Yoda

Great content!!! Will really make people think.

What a wonderful spirit she has! Thanks David 😎👍

Hi David: I’m a long time subscriber but two things stood out to me about the title of this video (and forgive me for nitpicking!): She is a PhD, and could be confused with an elementary school teacher, but mainly it’s the fact it’s not the students questions about her size that appear to bother her, but their parents’ explanation when asked.

Its crazy to see just how far our education system has fallen.. you rarely see teachers with such a drive to teach children.. there not even a resemblance of this today..

@Adam1nToronto

8 ай бұрын

Decades of conservative efforts to diminish and outright abolish education will do that.

@yellowblanka6058

8 ай бұрын

The depends on the school - my public school in a small, suburban/rural college town had quite a few teachers like this who were passionate about their subjects and really cared about their students, including the 2nd grade teacher who doggedly help me learn to read. It's a problem of funding for public schools, teacher safety and ignorant parents trying to interfere with the curriculum. I'm confident that many/most teachers are in the education field because they want to educated and guide the next generation, to see that spark of enlightenment that comes with learning, but unfortunately teachers are also leaving the field (at least primary school educators) for safety/curriculum etc. concerns.

@jamiesuzanne5781

8 ай бұрын

@Adam1nToronto 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I literally spit my coffee out at the very thought! Delusions hit pretty hard these days, apparently! I don't personally subscribe to either side of the aisle. The government as a whole is corrupt and does everything in its power to keep the masses numb and dumb! But conservative values most certainly were NOT the downfall of the education system!!! It's most definitely the movement of the libtarded that completely mushed the brains of the masses!!!!

She seems like a nice lady and a good teacher.

What a great person! If only we had more of

She’s absolutely brilliant 👑

She was so brave and courageous.

@Adam1nToronto

8 ай бұрын

That societal bigotry demands those two attributes just to be accepted saddens me.

Such an impressive lady!

She is beautiful ❤

Is she still around today?

1978.... You're welcome!

Hi David thanks for sharing this, its like the show on TLC call "Little Couple" with Jean and Mike Kline she's a doctor works at a children's hospital 🏥 and they both born were they won't grow full normal height. And there's another show on the same network call "Little people big world" Amy and Matt Rolloff in Oregon The first two couple are in Florida. Thanks for sharing this about the woman that a doctor it looks 1970s . 🎥🎞️

@JWF99

8 ай бұрын

I always liked watching both of those show too👍

I miss those overhead protectors!

how should parents handle it when their kids are staring at you?

I'm really glad you explained Dwarfism in the description, because I was wondering if she would be considered a dwarf or not. Since her short stature is NOT related to the dwarfism gene, I assume she technically is not a dwarf. I also find her remarks about kids talking about her size interesting. Makes me wonder what the kids say of teacher(s) Abby & Brittany Hensel, the conjoined twins who became teachers! kzread.info/dash/bejne/lZZ9srioZLvUfKw.html

Schools were so great back in the day

Love the content, but would love to know the time frame of some of these videos.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

1978. David Hoffman Filmmaker

there's a book about her life. where is she now? is she still around?

Video worth watching, but I didn't see anything in it that suggested she was bugged by students' questions about her size, so the title is somewhat misleading.

@MicahScottPnD

8 ай бұрын

It's at the very beginning.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

It's in the beginning. She says it herself. The title is not misleading. David Hoffman filmmaker

@dantzmusic

8 ай бұрын

The title merely reflected her own words.

@ixchelkali

8 ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker, she didn't say she was bugged by her students' questions about her size. She said that she was bugged when children, showing a natural curiosity, ask questions and their parents try to hush them up and/or tell them not to look. It's the parents' quelling the children's questions that bugged her, not the questions themselves. That's an important distinction. Children naturally notice differences in people, but they don't attach a value to it. They have to be taught that there's something "wrong" with being different. They learn that when parents tell them not to mention differences and not to even look at people with disabilities. That's what this teacher objected to. The video's title says the opposite.

What Year David ? Great video.

@NLYS27

8 ай бұрын

Everyone is trying to figure that out as well.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

I believe it was 1978. David Hoffman Filmaker

Remarkable story. Is Dr Swanson still alive? I was unable to find anything currently about her, but neither did i find an obituary.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

I googled her and found that a book had been written about her in 1988. From what I gleaned she earned a doctorate in biochemistry and then went on to a stellar academic career at a university. What makes her journey so extraordinary is that in addition to her physical disability, she received her advanced education and built her career at a time when women were still treated with second class status in many ways. If the disadvantages of her physical disability and gender weren't enough, add to that the fact that her career choice was biochemistry. Science was male-dominated back in those days, especially in academia. David Hoffman Filmmaker

@ZagnutBar

8 ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker yes I saw you posted a very similar reply elsewhere in the comments. But you didn't address my question- is she still alive? Or can I assume from this answer that you don't know?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

I do not know. David Hoffman filmmaker

Everyone has a purpose under heaven.

@Adam1nToronto

8 ай бұрын

😂

She's pretty cool 😊

What year was this filmed David? Is she still living?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

1978. I googled her and found that a book had been written about her in 1988. From what I gleaned she earned a doctorate in biochemistry and then went on to a stellar academic career at a university. What makes her journey so extraordinary is that in addition to her physical disability, she received her advanced education and built her career at a time when women were still treated with second class status in many ways. If the disadvantages of her physical disability and gender weren't enough, add to that the fact that her career choice was biochemistry. Science was thoroughly male-dominated back in those days, especially in academia. David Hoffman Filmmaker

“A very small man(or woman) can cast a very large shadow.” GRRM

What year was this filmed? Will guess 1979.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

1978. David Hoffman Filmmaker

@MicahScottPnD

8 ай бұрын

Wow, close. Pretty good guess

When was this filmed? Edit: 1978 allegedly, see replies

@SomeKidFromBritain

8 ай бұрын

@@TrumpAgenda47Only What year specifically though?

@karenchakey

8 ай бұрын

I see a pinto car and the clothes and glasses people have on i would say 70s, I was born in the 60s and went to school in 70s. Brings back memories for me 😊

@NLYS27

8 ай бұрын

@@SomeKidFromBritain Judging the cars in the video we are looking mid to late 70s specifically.

@SomeKidFromBritain

8 ай бұрын

@@NLYS27 mr hoffman must know?

@riverotters

8 ай бұрын

looks more like 1982/1983 to me going by the hair/clothes

Typical click-bait heading on this video. Dr. Swanson was not "bugged" by "student's questions about her size (implying by the way that there was only one student... learn how to properly use punctuation marks), but by the parents who are supposedly trying to protect their children from not-always predictable aspects of life.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

8 ай бұрын

You are incorrect Jeffrey and you did not see the video. It is the first thing she says. And she uses the word bugged. David Hoffman filmmaker

@dantzmusic

8 ай бұрын

Yes, she did say "one thing that bugs me." This could possibly mean something that annoys or irritates her. Click-bait headings also seem to bug some folks too.

@jeffreyslotnikoff4003

8 ай бұрын

She uses the word "bugs" but not in relation to any "student" but when "children" will ask their parents "why is she so little?" and the parents will "shush" the child. It is the parents response that "bugs" her, not some supposed "student". You need to pay more attention to your own uploaded videos.@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Wait children aren't supposed to be shown pornographic material by their teachers?? Sounds like censorship 😂

@MicahScottPnD

8 ай бұрын

She framed that exceedingly well!

@MicahScottPnD

8 ай бұрын

She framed that exceedingly well!