Ethics

Ok so I have tried reading over this alot, but I still kinda don't get it. The main question in this poem is "If there were a fire in a museum which would you save, a Rembrandt painting or an old woman who hadn't many years left anyhow?" The teacher asked this question to the kids in her class every year and every year they had a different answer. By the way I looked up Rembrandt. At first I thought it was a word, but I learned it was a guys name! Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was his full name. He was a pianter and etcher. Anyways it goes on and I think that the little girl who was once in the class, is now an old lady and she is standing in front of a painting in a museum. And she is explaining how beautiful this painting is. She is explaining how it is "darker than autumn, darker even than winter - the browns of the earth". Then she goes on to her answer. She say's, "I know now that woman and painiting and season are almost one and all beyond saving by children." I'm kinda confused on what she means by this. I think what she is saying is that it is beyond a childs capability to figure out who to save either one. I am pretty sure that's 100% wrong but when I read it thats all that I can understand! It's like she puts the painting on the same level as the old woman...life! If anyone has an understanding of this...please let me know! I am soo confused! But anyways going to the museum was really cool. It made me appreciate art a little more cause I was never a huge art fan. The kids art section was the best though. But the huge picture with the guys all around doing random things, I don't know what that was about, but that was probably my most favorite.