Kent M. Keith (born in 1949 in Brooklyn) is an American writer and leader in higher education.
Raised in Nebraska, California, Virginia, Rhode Island and Hawaii, where he graduated from secondary school, Keith entered Harvard College to study government.
After graduating, he read philosophy and politics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,[1] received his J.D.
degree at Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and earned an Ed.
His early career was as an attorney with Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright and then as Director of the State of Hawaii Department of Planning and Economic Development.
The Paradoxical Commandments is both a poem and a book by Keith, which he wrote as an undergraduate.
In 1997, Keith learned that the poem "The Paradoxical Commandments" had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, India;[4] and, two decades after writing the original poem, Dr. Keith wrote a book of the same title expanding on the themes of the poem: Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World.