grammar help

[skm]

please correct it, "what were wanted were teachers not the books"

[queenbu]

I would say 'What was needed were teachers not books'

[MrPedantic]

That's interesting. I would be more inclined to say:

1. What was needed was teachers, not books.

MrP

[queenbu]

I would say 'Teachers were what was needed'
What do others think re original sentence?