1103: "Please don't learn to read."
1527: "Please don't learn to write."
1965: "Please don't learn to type."
2012: "Please don't learn to code."
1527: "Please don't learn to write."
1965: "Please don't learn to type."
2012: "Please don't learn to code."
"please don't learn to manufacture"
Edit: Actually no. "Please buy a smart phone" is the next step after "please don't learn to code".
I'm assuming that there will be some short-hand verb for messing about with genetic organisms, and/or for home-synthesis of biological compounds. "Please don't learn to modify genomes" or "Please don't learn to synthesize chemical compounds" didn't feel pithy enough.
It's a pretty Eurocentric approach, and probably rather inaccurate, but I suspect that you could find a dozen examples of bans on learning to read and write on any given continent in the past thousand years alone. (I was really more torn about what year to choose for typing; a case could be made for anywhere from the late 1800's after the invention of the typewriter, all the way to the 1990s, when I first had to deal with a mandatory typing class in high school.)
(not the sheeple, the burgeoning AI that is then arguably the primary intelligence on the planet. I feel bad explaining but think it is probably necessary. I'm also not super serious.)