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During Maggie's Premiership - the 1980s the main decade, I was in my 30s (31 in 1979) and to me it taught that if you work hard, you will do well. That meant at school as well as at work.
It did not teach me, or make me think, "stuff every one else" as every one on here seems to say; it did not encourage me to be greedy either, I don't know why others seems to have that idea.
The "no such thing as society" speech has been taken out of context so many times (I have put the whole speech on here a couple of times) it's untrue.
I am of a very working class background - I was one of six children, born in a council house, my Dad was a postman, my Mum used to take washing in to supplment his meagre wages.
I didn't go to a grammer school, just a "secondary modern" as they were called in the 50s and 60s. We never thought about class, we just got on with life.
Get a job, work hard at it, get promotion, get an increase in wages/salary, buy your house, build your career in whatever field you have chosen. If there's others who are less fortunate (not less hard-working, just less fortunate) help them where and when you can.
In many ways, that attitude seems to be mocked nowadays; I still believe in it though and hope that it will stay with me for the rest of my life.
I am proud to be a Conservative and promote this attitude; Maggie Thatcher I felt, had the same approach but in a bigger way.
Roger