Peng was born into a poor peasant family, and received several years of primary education before his family's poverty forced him to suspend his education at the age of ten, and to work for several years as a manual laborer.
Others had to put plans on hold, sell cars, cancel the purchase of homes, suspend their education.
In consequence, there is order, hierarchy, "stand behind that there barrier", and a belief that what really matters about your nation is that some bloke can suspend his education for years and at the end of it jump three inches further than a fellow from Papua New Guinea.
When Hoffmann married and moved to Sacramento, she initially anticipated that financial considerations might require her to suspend her education.
Some suspend their education, while others drop out of school entirely, buckling under the strain of attempting to study, work and care for a child.
After both of his parents died when he was in his early 20s, he suspended his education to become a teacher to support his siblings.
He had gone to college for two years, suspended his education and was working as a desk clerk at a hotel when he switched to Walmart this year, lured not by the starting wage but by what he had heard from a friend about the potential to rise within a giant company.
School districts across California are grappling with AB 114, which suspends several education statutes for the remainder of the year.
Over five years later -- and it's very clear to me now -- I realize they mistakenly suspended his education.
Last month, NASA issued an internal memo suspending "all education and public outreach activities … pending further review" because of sequestration.
Officials said there are an estimated 3,500 to 3,800 school children in Aleppo, and suspending their education would also make it harder for them to catch up when the conflict ends.
