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The C programming language
Let me first get this out of the way: C is an ambiguous programming language. It can be used to build incredibly fast software, but only if you know how and where to use it.
It is not a good programming language for teaching people how to program. It's unnecessarily complex, and so if you want to build simple software from scratch, there are better languages that allow you to do just that.
What C is good at, however, is taking existing software and modifying it. It's great for writing code that runs inside an operating system. For example: if you want to build a word processor in C so that it can open and save files quickly, then there are things you can do with the underlying file handling API (the functions used internally by the operating system) which will make your program run faster.
In my opinion, C is great for doing two things: building operating systems, and writing compilers. I think it's a bit of a stretch to use C to build word processors.
I think that C is hard to teach, and I wouldn't recommend using it at the beginner level. It's much easier for a beginner to learn Python or something like that.
I am not recommending Python, though. I would much rather teach a beginner Perl or Lisp.