You don't know me... You don't know my story

Dead Poet's Society has ideas of transcendentalism all through out the movie. Robin Williams stars as  John Kealings, an English teacher in a boy's boarding school. He persistently stresses to his students to make their own and have their own opinions; no matter how silly they be or what other people might think. He encourages them to think outside the box and look at things through different perspectives. Kealings pushes them to be original; to be who they are and not stray from it. Overall, he doesn't want them to go out into the world and follow the mainstream. Different is good, and that is all that he wants his students to be. He wants him to have the drive to "seize the day" and be an example to the rest of the world. Transcendentalism is all of these: nonconformity, self-reliance, and intuition over reason.